A Dirty Broth: Early-Twentieth-Century Welsh Plays in English Cottis David
When Caradoc Evans's play Taffy was first performed in London, the Western Mail reviewer described it as 'like a dirty broth which, dished out to the English people, is swallowed with avidity.' In so…
Specifikacia A Dirty Broth: Early-Twentieth-Century Welsh Plays in English Cottis David
When Caradoc Evans's play Taffy was first performed in London, the Western Mail reviewer described it as 'like a dirty broth which, dished out to the English people, is swallowed with avidity.' In so doing, it summed up the treatment often given to the tradition of English-language playwriting in Wales--sometimes ignored, sometimes disapproved of, rarely celebrated. This anthology, the first in a series of three, brings together three plays from the beginnings of Welsh playwriting in English: Change by J. O. Francis (1913), a family drama of the upheavals at the start of the twentieth century; Taffy (1923), a fierce satire on the Welsh social and religious establishment; and A Comedy of Good and Evil (1924) by Richard Hughes, a magical realist fantasy of the dilemmas faced by a country cleric and his wife when they are faced with a literal demon-child.