SD
is to an unusual extent identified with her successful first play and with nothing else. In 2010 Jeanette Winterson
wrote an exasperated piece on her entitled My hero: Shelagh Delaney. A Taste of...
Reception
Michèle Roberts
A Piece of the Night, however, was joint winner (with a biography of Joe Orton
) of the annual Gay News literary award. MR
framed the certificate to hang in her bedroom.
Roberts, Michèle. Paper Houses. Virago, 2007.
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“Professor Michele Roberts”. University of East Anglia.
Influenced by Joe Orton
's Entertaining Mr. Sloane and Eva Figes
' Patriarchal Attitudes, the play has been read as critiquing the destructive effects of private property.
Kritzer, Amelia Howe. The Plays of Caryl Churchill: Theatre of Empowerment. Macmillan, 1991.
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Churchill, Caryl. Plays: One. Methuen, 1985.
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Its protagonist, Marion, is a...
Textual Production
Nina Bawden
NB
returned to a surname she had used in Familiar Passions for the protagonist of a new novel, Ruffian on the Stair: the almost-centenarian Samuel Mudd.