Making History
- ISBN-10
- 0571154778
- ISBN-13
- 9780571154777
- Series
- Making History
- Category
- Drama in English, 1945- - Texts
- Pages
- 71
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1989-01-01
- Publisher
- London ; Boston : Faber and Faber
- Author
- Brian Friel
Description
The central character of this play is Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, who led an Irish and Spanish alliance against the armies of Elizabeth I in an attempt to drive the English out of Ireland. The action takes place before and after the Battle of Kinsale, at which the alliance was defeated: with O'Neill at home in Dungannon, as a fugitive in the mountains, and finally exiled in Rome. In his handling of this momentous episode Brian Friel has avoided the conventions of 'historical drama' to produce a play about history, the continuing process.
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