![]() ![]() Like many other "closet dramas" of its age, The Hostage, through its very use of homosexual characters, serves to reinforce many common tacit assumptions about homosexuality, as well as to foreground the nature of its practitioners. If anything, the chaotic close more clearly delineates Grace's and Rita's proclivities as well as lengthening the "mileage" the author got from this theme. a masterpiece' (Harold Hobson) and Richard's Cork Leg. First come the three famous full-length plays: The Quare Fellow, set in an Irish prison, is 'something very like a masterpiece' (John Russell Taylor) The Hostage, set in a Dublin lodging-house of doubtful repute, 'shouts, sings, thunders and stamps with life. Brendan Behan obviously needed the secret policemen to enter the fray and cause the senseless death of the sacrificial Leslie, but why did he specifically use Rio Rita, Princess Grace, and Mulleady as an ironic deus ex machina? As Bert Cardullo notes, many critics see this constructed ending as "cheap" - "cheap in the sense that it suddenly negates the homosexual relationship between Grace and Rita, out of which the playwright has got much theatrical mileage, and cheap in the literal sense that it removes the need to hire extra actors to portray the police." While the economics of this recycling cannot be denied, it would do a disservice to the text to claim that the constructed ending "negates" Grace's and Rita's relationship. This volume contains everything Behan wrote in dramatic form in English. He was a writer, known for Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), Borstal Boy (2000) and The Quare Fellow (1962). Critics have long pondered the effectiveness of The Hostage's denouement. Writer Soundtrack Brendan Behan was born on Februin Dublin, Ireland as Brendan Francis Aidan Behan. ![]()
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