The Hostage | Critical Overview
There is no unanimous critical opinion about The Hostage, and the seeds of critical disagreement about the play seem to have been sown in the first reviews. The play premiered in London on October 14, 1958, and the next day reviews appeared in both the London Times and the Guardian that mixed praise with condemnation.
The unnamed author of the Times’s review recognized Behan’s comic genius and his deft characterizations. ‘‘Meg is the shameless woman of the streets who enjoys letting herself go in a flood of patriotic rhetoric as much...
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