Reflections by the author of Dancing at Lughnasa on Irish writers, the theater, nationalism, Catholicism, and his childhood
Modernity, Community, and Place in Brian Friel’s Drama shows how the leading Irish playwright explores a series of dynamic physical and intellectual environments, charting the impact of modernity on rural...
Biographical information accompanies a critical study of the themes and narrative techniques found in the Anglo-Irish author's short stories and plays.
Friel is recognised as Ireland's leading playwright and due to the ability of plays like Translations and Dancing at Lughnasa to translate into other cultures he has made a major...
In examining the effects of this operation on the lives of a small group, Brian Friel skillfully reveals the far-reaching personal and cultural effects of an action which is at first sight purely administrative.
... 146, 149, 152, 153 Sacks, Oliver 130 Said, Edward 90 Schechner, Richard 116 Schneider, Ulrich 152 Shaughraun, The (Boucicault) 84 Shaw, George Bernard 21, 84, 85–86, 109, 144 Silence in the Garden, The (Trevor) 5 Smith, Robert 78, ...
... Wonderful Tennessee dated 13 August 1990. 83. NLI, Brian Friel Papers, MS 37,123/3. Note towards Wonderful Tennessee dated 17 August 1990. 84. NLI, Brian Friel Papers, MS 37,123/3. Note towards Wonderful Tennessee dated 29 May 1991. 85 ...
Christopher Murray's Critical Companion is the definitive guide to Friel's work, offering both a detailed study of individual plays and an exploration of Friel's dual commitment to tradition and modernity across his oeuvre.
* Lucid and accessible style makes the series appealing to the general reader * Liberally illustrated throughout with stills from the film under discussion. * Collaboration between Cork University Press and the Film Institute of Ireland.
This book addresses the variety and complexity of Ireland's leading living dramatist by bringing together a range of academic and other professional and creative approaches.
Flannery, James, W. B. Yeats and the Idea of a Theatre: The Early Abbey Theatre in Theory and Practice (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1976). Fletcher, Alan J. (ed.), Drama and the Performing Arts in PreCromwellian Ireland: A ...