A Taste of Honey (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Shelagh Delaney
- First Published: 1959
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: The late 1950’s
- Setting: Salford, Lancashire
- Genres: Social realism, Domestic realism, Drama, Psychological drama
- Subjects: 1950’s, Maturation or coming of age, Child rearing or parenting, Mothers, Parents and children, Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Marriage, Betrayal, Prejudices or antipathies, Alienation, Friendship, Pregnancy, England or English people, Lower classes, Working class, Loneliness, Toleration
- Locales: Manchester, England, Lancashire, England
Characters Discussed
Josephine (Jo), who is about sixteen, in high school but preparing to drop out. She is attractive but without the instinctive sexuality of her mother, with whom she lives in squalor in the tenement slums of Manchester, England. The illegitimate daughter of (according to her mother) a retarded man, Jo is self-contained and more mature than her years, with an acerbic wit that more than matches her mother’s hardness, and with some signs of artistic talent. Unable to concentrate on her possibilities because of the transient nature of her upbringing, she tries...
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