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Gwenlyn Parry was one of the most important Welsh-language playwrights of the twentieth century and played a key role in the popularisation and flourishing of drama in the theatre and on television during the 1970s and 1980s. Parry's major stage plays - Saer Doliau, Ty ar y Tywod, Y Ffin and Y Twr - had a substantial impact, and were instrumental in solidifying a new relationship between drama and theatrical production in Welsh, bringing the theatricality of the Absurd to a popular audience for the first time. His plays have been the subject of much critical attention in Welsh, and have been reinterpreted in production on many occasions, both in their original form and in translation. This study is the first extended treatment of his life and work in English, and examines the complex and occasionally paradoxical relationship between the autobiographical aspects of his writing and his use of theatrical form.

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Publié par	University of Wales Press
Date de parution	15 septembre 2013
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780708326633
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	2 Mo

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Writers of Wales

Gwenlyn Parry

Editors: Meic Stephens Jane Aaron M.Wynn Thomas

Honorary Series Editor : R. Brinley Jones

Other titles in the Writers of Wales series: Welsh Periodicals in English 1882–2012(2013), Malcolm Ballin Ruth Bidgood(2012), Matthew Jarvis Dorothy Edwards(2011), Claire Flay Kate Roberts(2011), Katie Gramich Geoffrey of Monmouth(2010), Karen Jankulak Herbert Williams(2010), Phil Carradice Rhys Davies(2009), Huw Osborne R. S.Thomas(2006),Tony Brown Ben Bowen(2003),T. Robin Chapman James Kitchener Davies(2002), M. Wynn Thomas

Writers of Wales

Gwenlyn Parry

Roger Owen

University of Wales Press Cardiff 2013

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British Library CataloguinginPublication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

ISBN 9780708326626 eISBN 9780708326633

The right of Roger Owen to be identiﬁed as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections 77, 78 and 79 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

The publisher acknowledges the ﬁnancial support of the Welsh Books Council.

Typeset in Wales by Eira Fenn Gaunt, Fenn Typesetting, Cardiff Printed by CPI Antony Rowe, Chippenham, Wiltshire

To Sally, with all my love

Acknowledgements List of illustrations

Introduction

Contents

ix xi

xiii

1 ‘Llanbabo it is to us and Llanbabo it will remain’: Early Life 1 2 ‘God help me, I cannot escape from this’: Three Short Plays 13 3 ‘A kind of selftherapy’:Saer Doliau 31 4 ‘A revolution . . . where one man takes over the empire of the other’:T}ar y Tywod45 5 ‘A Welsh Tom and Jerry’:Fo a FeandY Fﬁn60 6 ‘In the middle of the seventies experience’: Pobol y CwmandGrand Slam78 7 ‘They will also argue and ﬁght and talk about their fear of death etc.’:Y T{r 88 8 ‘You know who’s in the balance?’:Sal108 9 ‘Any bloody fool can play dame’:Panto 121 10 ‘Everything will be ﬁne now, you’ll see’: Later Life 137

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Notes Select Bibliography Index

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