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Shelagh Delaney , 1939-, English playwright, b. Salford, Lancashire. Her first play, written when she was only 17, was A Taste of Honey (1958), about a young working-class girl who refuses to conform to her dreary surroundings. It was a critical and popular success and was made into a film. After her second play, The Lion in Love (1960), she turned to writing screenplays, including Charlie Bubbles (1968) and Dance with a Stranger (1985).

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Delaney, Shelagh (1939– ), playwright, is known for A Taste of Honey, written when she was 17. It was presented by Joan Littlewood in 1958 and was hailed as a landmark in the new school of ‘kitchen sink’ realism, a movement partly inspired by reaction against the drawing-room drama of Rattigan and Coward. Subsequent works, written for the cinema and television, include Charley Bubbles (1968) and Dance with a Stranger (1985).

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	Joan Littlewood and the Theatre Workshop.(Book review) Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 6/22/2007
	Where Eagletons dare.(Terry Eagleton, The Gatekeeper: A Memoir) Magazine article from: New Criterion; 6/1/2002
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	Young, gifted and back Magazine article from: New Statesman; 5/26/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...years, the story of Delaney the feisty teenage dramatist...gleamed. What a freak Shelagh Delaney was. The front! At...hours earlier. "Miss Delaney, what are you prepared...don't know," said Shelagh dismissively, exuding...
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	Obituary: Penny Tackaberry Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 6/27/1994; ; 446 words ; ...I FIRST met Penny Tackaberry a long time ago, when my agent Tessa Sayle invited her to join the agency, writes Shelagh Delaney. Tessa put her in charge of the theatre, film and television section and gave her six months to make something of...
	Obituaries: Joan Littlewood Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 9/23/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...championed new abrasive writers such as Brendan Behan and Shelagh Delaney. A lifelong old-fashioned socialist, she remained...written that herself. Two years later, she took Shelagh Delaney's A Taste of Honey to the Theatre Royal. A play...
	`Honey's' Sweeter; At the Olney, Love Among the Ruined Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 8/31/1987; ; 700+ words ; ...written by an 18-year-old-which Shelagh Delaney was when she first put pen to paper...suggests. But the fact remains, Delaney turned out a remarkable first work...the language of the slums, and Delaney seemed to be falling right in with...
	What's on in stoke-on-trent and staffordshire Newspaper article from: Sentinel, The (Stoke-on-Trent UK); 5/19/2009; 500 words ; ...office on 01270 537333. THEATRE: A Taste Of Honey is Shelagh Delaney's endearing drama which can be seen at the New Vic Theatre in Basford until Saturday, May 23. Shelagh was only 18 when she wrote her hugely successful work...
	Inspired by a daughter's bravery; Forty five years after A Taste of Honey, Rita Tushingham is still at the top of her profession, inspired by the bravery of her daughter who has overcome breast cancer. David Charters reports.(Features) Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England); 5/9/2006; 700+ words ; ...film was based on the play of the same name written by Shelagh Delaney, a passionate young writer from Salford, who, like...who also directed. Much of it is shot by the canal in Shelagh's native Salford. The film was a huge success on...
	Music fails to enhance this grim slice of life Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 11/19/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...play the "semi-whore" Helen in Shelagh Delaney's shabby little Salford shocker...productions celebrating the premiere of Delaney's uncompromising play, written...Morrisey's songs were inspired by Delaney's work and her youthful face...