Stewart Parker

the long version

Born in Belfast during World War II, raised in a working-class Protestant family, and educated on scholarship at Queen's University, writer Stewart Parker's story is in many ways the story of his generation. It is as a playwright that Parker earned a permanent spot in the literary canon with drama that encapsulates his experience of Northern Ireland in the 1970s. This book illuminates the genesis, development, and meaning of his classic plays - works that continue to shed light on the North's past, present, and future - in the context of Parker's life and times.