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[[image:Girlfriend_in_a_Coma.png|thumb|right|Delaney was featured twice on [[The Smiths|Smiths]] record sleeves. This is the sleeve for their [[1987 in music|1987]] [[single (music)|single]], "Girlfriend in a Coma".]]

'''Shelagh Delaney''' is a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[playwright]] of [[Ireland|Irish]] descent. She is best known for her play ''A Taste Of Honey''.

===Biography===
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When she was seventeen, she began ''[[A Taste of Honey]]'' as a [[novel]] but realised that it would be better as a [[play]]. So she took a fortnight off work to adapt her novel into a play.
''[[A Taste of Honey]]'' (1958) is about a young working-class girl who refuses to conform to her dreary surroundings. The play portrays the liv
inges of typical nwordenglish workerskers in the north of England in an inventative way.

In 1958, ''A Taste of Honey'' was accepted by [[Joan Littlewood]], a famous [[theatre director|director]] of political theatre, who strongly believed that plays should be about ordinary people. It opened in the [[East End]] of [[London]] in May 1958, transferring to the [[West End]] early the following year, where it enjoyed a long run and won several awards. In 1960 ''A Taste of Honey'' was staged in [[New York]] and won a drama prize. Two years later Shela(contracted; show full)*[[A Taste of Honey]] (1958)
*The Lion in Love (1960)
*Sweetly Sings the Donkey (short stories, 1963)

[[Category:1939 births|Delaney, Shelagh]]
[[Category:British dramatists and playwrights|Delaney, Shelagh]]
[[Category:Living people|Delaney, Shelagh]]
[[Category:People of Irish descent in Great Britain|Delaney, Shelagh]]