A Taste of Honey

This Student Edition of Shelagh Delaney's 1958 plays offers a contemporary lens on the play and its then-radical exploration of themes including class, race, gender and homosexuality.

Shelagh Delaney was born in Salford, Lancashire. She is most well-known for A Taste of Honey, for which she won the Foyle's New Play Award and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award. She wrote the screenplay for the film version with Tony Richardson and was awarded the British Film Academy Award and the Robert Flaherty Award. Her other screenplays include The White Bus and Charley Bubbles, for which she won the Writers' Guild Award. She has also written for television and radio and has had a collection of short stories published. She died in 2011.

Chronology Introduction Historical, Social and Cultural Contexts 1950s Britain Angry Young Men Genres and Themes Class and Kitchen-Sink Realism Women Race Queer Identity Play as Performance Production History Further Reading A TASTE OF HONEY Notes