Premiered in 1958, A Taste of Honey, the debut (and only enduring) play by Shelagh Delaney (1938-2011), has usually been discussed as part of a wave of working-class drama that had included John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger two years before, or as an ­example of the disgraceful rarity of work by British women dramatists then and, until recently, since. Both of those categorisations are true. But, for those familiar with drama on TV as well as in the theatre, Delaney’s play is also fascinating as a premonition of Coronation Street. Two years before ITV started its domestic drama – set in the terraces of Salford (renamed Weatherfield) and ­centring on sassy and brassy northern women – Delaney brought to the stage a strikingly similar portrait of Salfordian li