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The Quare Fellow Information
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 The Quare Fellow is a play by Brendan Behan, first produced in 1954. The title is taken from a Hiberno-English pronunciation of queer, meaning 'strange' or 'unusual'. In context, the word lacks the direct connotations of homosexuality it holds today....


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Joseph Valente, ed. Quare Joyce.(Review) (book review)
09/22/1999: 2,183 words, approx. 7 pages Joseph Valente, ed. Quare Joyce. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998. 97 pp. $44.50 cloth. The genesis of Joseph Valente's collection of essays Quare Joyce was the special issue of the James Joyce Quarterly he edited in 1994. Of the collection's...
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 The Daily Mail (London, England)
the Fellowes.
11/12/2005: 1,868 words, approx. 6 pages Byline: MARY RIDDELL Inverted snobbery scotched upper crust JULIAN FELLOWES's early acting career. But when he proposed to his wife 20 minutes after meeting her, it sparked an avalanche of late success, starting with his Gosford Park screenplay and culminating in directing...



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Critical Essay by John Russell Taylor
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 [The characters of Behan's The Quare Fellow] are not very precisely individualized, for Behan's style is essentially more narrative than strictly dramatic and he could hardly be farther from psychological drama, but all are observed with a rich, all-embracing humanity…. (p. 103) [The principle upon which the play is built is that] in prison, even when an execution is imminent, comedy and tragedy are inextricably mixed, as everywhere else in life, and the memento mori is seldom without i...


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