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Shelagh Delaney FRSL (/ ˈ ʃ iː l ə d ə ˈ l eɪ n iː /; 25 November 1938 – 20 November 2011) was an English dramatist and screenwriter. Her debut work, A Taste of Honey (1958), has been described by Michael Patterson as "probably the most performed play by a post-war British woman playwright".
Shelagh Delaney (born November 25, 1939, Salford, Lancashire, England—died November 20, 2011, Suffolk) was a British playwright who, at age 19, won critical acclaim and popular success with the London production of her first play, A Taste of Honey (1958).
A Taste of Honey is the first play by the British dramatist Shelagh Delaney, written when she was 19. It was adapted into an award-winning film of the same title in 1961.
Nov 25, 2011 · Shelagh Delaney, a British playwright and screenwriter who reached the height of her literary fame at 19 as an “angry young woman” — a characterization she detested — with the premiere of her...
Nov 22, 2011 · Playwright Shelagh Delaney, who had an international hit with A Taste of Honey , a play she wrote when she was still a teenager, died Nov 20. The cause was cancer. She was 71.
In 1958, Shelagh Delaney, a working-class teenager from Salford, became famous when her debut play, A Taste of Honey, was staged in London. Focused on a sing...
Nov 22, 2011 · SHELAGH Delaney was a teenager when she wrote A Taste of Honey, which became a landmark in British theatre and cinema in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It broke new ground with...
Nov 21, 2011 · Shelagh Delaney, who wrote the screenplay for the seminal work A Taste of Honey, cited by singer Morrissey as the best film of the 1960s, has died after a battle with cancer.
Nov 23, 2011 · Shelagh Delaney. Imagine an 18-year old girl from the back streets of Salford writing a play with the power to change the cosy world of British...
Nov 21, 2011 · Shelagh Delaney, the playwright, who died on Sunday aged 71, wrote – at the age of 17 – A Taste of Honey (1958), which was to place her at the heart of what became known as the kitchen...
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