Whelan Plays: 1: The Accrington Pals, the Herbal Bed, ...

First collection of plays by one of Britain's most-acclaimed contemporary playwrights. Whelan is expert at moving and often comical evocations of suffering and desire, whether in Elizabethan England, or in deserted Lancashire mill towns during the Great War.Peter Whelan was born in 1931 and lives in the English Midlands. One of the Britain's most popular living playwrights, he has worked very closely with the Royal Shakespeare Company.