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Plays One

Forty Years On, Getting On, Habeas Corpus and Enjoy

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This collection of Alan Bennett's work includes his first play and West End hit, Forty Years On, as well as Getting On, Habeus Corpus, and Enjoy.Forty Years On'Alan Bennett's most gloriously funny play ... a brilliant, youthful perception of a nation in decline, as seen through the eyes of a home-grown school play ... a classic.' Daily MailGetting OnWinner of the Evening Standard Best Comedy Award in 1971, Getting on is an account of a middle-aged Labour MP, so self-absorbed that he remains blind to the fact that his wife is having an affair with the handyman, his mother-in-law in dying, his son is getting ready to leave home, his best friend thinks him a fool and that to everyone who comes into contact with him he is a self-esteeming joke.Habeus Corpus'After two elegiac comedies about the decline of old England, Mr Bennett has now written a gorgeously vulgar but densely plotted facre that is a downright celebration of sex and the human body ... a combination of hurtling action with verbal brilliance.' GuardianEnjoyEnjoy uncannily foresaw the attitudes to English working-class life now enshrined in themeparks. 'The classic tug in Bennett between childhod Yorkshire and intellectual sophistication has never been better, or more daringly expressed.' Observer

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Publisher
Faber & Faber
Language
English
Pages
336

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Cover of: Alan Bennett: Plays, Volume 1
Alan Bennett: Plays, Volume 1
2008, Faber and Faber Ltd
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Cover of: Plays One
Plays One: Forty Years On, Getting On, Habeas Corpus and Enjoy
1996, Faber & Faber
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Cover of: Forty years on ; Getting on ; Habeas Corpus ; and, Enjoy
Forty years on ; Getting on ; Habeas Corpus ; and, Enjoy
1991, Faber and Faber
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Library of Congress
PR6052.E5 A6 1996

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Number of pages
336
Dimensions
7.6 x 5 x 1 inches
Weight
10.6 ounces

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7856896M
Internet Archive
isbn_9780571177455
ISBN 10
057117745X
ISBN 13
9780571177455
OCLC/WorldCat
34659483
Library Thing
1878695
Goodreads
272438

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