In a play by this author, a man receives a silver cane from the Combined Staffs, Excess and Refundsbranch of the Great Southern Railways but uses the cane to beat his wife to death. In that play by this man,a five-person chorus includes The Embezzler, The Boy from the Island
In a play by this author, a man receives a silver cane from the Combined Staffs, Excess and Refundsbranch of the Great Southern Railways but uses the cane to beat his wife to death. In that play by this man,a five-person chorus includes The Embezzler, The Boy from the Island, and The Man of Thirty. Thisauthor, who used the pseudonym "Emmet Street" to publish the serial novel The Scarperer, bookended thatplay with the prison dirge "The Old Triangle." This author of The Quare Fellow also wrote about Ken'sunsuccessful escape earning a sentence in the "chokey" and about befriending Charlie and Ginger followinga raid on his bomb-making house in Liverpool. For 10 points, name this besotted Irish nationalist author ofthe autobiographical Borstal Boy
In a play by this author, a man receives a silver cane from the Combined Staffs, Excess and Refundsbranch of the Great Southern Railways but uses the cane to beat his wife to death.
Brendan Behan