Gwenlyn Parry

Klappentext This study is the first extended treatment in English of the life and work of Gwenlyn Parry! one of the most important Welsh-language playwrights of the twentieth century. It examines the complex and occasionally paradoxical relationship between the autobiographical aspects of his writing and his use of theatrical form. Zusammenfassung This study is the first extended treatment in English of the life and work of Gwenlyn Parry! one of the most important Welsh-language playwrights of the twentieth century. It examines the complex and occasionally paradoxical relationship between the autobiographical aspects of his writing and his use of theatrical form.

Autorentext

Roger Owen is a Lecturer at the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, Aberystwyth University.

Inhalt

1. 'Llanbabo it is to us and Llanbabo it will remain': Early Life 2. 'God help me, I cannot escape from this': Three Short Plays 3. 'A kind of self-therapy': Saer Doliau 4. 'A revolution ...where one man takes over the empire of the other': Ty ar y Tywod 5. 'A Welsh Tom and Jerry': Fo a Fe and Y Ffin 6. 'In the middle of the seventies experience': Pobol y Cwm and Grand Slam 7. 'They will also argue and fight and talk about their fear of death etc.': Y Twr 8. 'You know who's in the balance?: Sal 9. 'Any bloody fool can play dame': Panto 10. 'Everything will be fine now, you'll see': Later Life