A Dirty Broth: Early-Twentieth-Century Welsh Plays in English

When Caradoc Evans’s play Taffy was first performed in London, the Western Mail reviewer described it as ‘like a dirty broth which, dished out to the English people, is swallowed with avidity.’ In so doing, it summed up the treatment often given to the tradition of English-language playwriting in Wales—sometimes ignored, sometimes disapproved of, rarely celebrated. This anthology, the first in a series of three, brings together three plays from the beginnings of Welsh playwriting in English...