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The Hostage by Brendan Behan

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Author Biography

Name: Brendan Behan
Birth Date: 9 February 1923
Death Date: 20 March 1964

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Biography of Brendan Behan
5837 words, approx. 19.5 pages
Although Brendan Behan was the major new voice of Irish drama in the 1950s, for most of his contemporaries, his life was better known than his work. This situation was probably inevitable after he received international fame--and notoriety--in the wake o...
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Biography of Brendan Behan
2446 words, approx. 8.2 pages
Brendan Behan was the most important new Irish dramatist of the 1950s. Writing without the support of the theatrical establishment (the Abbey Theatre rejected his early efforts), Behan developed an original style that combined bawdy humor, genuine pathos...
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Biography of Brendan Behan
2021 words, approx. 6.7 pages
Brendan Behan was the most important new Irish dramatist of the 1950s. Writing without the support of the theatrical establishment (the Abbey Theatre rejected his early efforts), Behan developed an original style that combined bawdy humor, genuine pathos...


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The Hostage Information
370 words, approx. 1 pages
The Hostage is a 1958 translation to English, of the Gaelic play An Giall, by its author, Brendan...


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The Economist (US)
America plays for time. (hostages in Lebanon)
08/05/1989: 782 words, approx. 3 pages
America plays for time LAS VEGAS was not the best place for President Bush to be headed on the day the videotape of Colonel William Higgin's swaying corpse was release in Lebanon. The tape provoked deep revulsion in the United States, far deeper...
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The Washington Post
Series Number: Hostages: Bush Has Played It Right
05/02/1990: 828 words, approx. 3 pages
How can President Bush look at Robert Polhill and Frank Reed-sallow, emaciated and brutalized from three years' imprisonment in a Lebanese dungeon-and seemingly not do anything he can to secure the release of the remaining hostages? How can he listen to the anguish...
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Bush to Iran: 'Give back the hostages'
4/1/2007: 720 words, approx. 2 pages
President Bush on Saturday said Iran's capture of 15 British sailors and marines was "inexcusable" and called for Iran to "give back the hostages" immediately and unconditionally.Bush said Iran plucked the sailors out of Iraqi waters. Iran's president said Saturday they were in Iranian waters...
 


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