The Cambridge Companion to Brian Friel
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The Cambridge Companion to Brian Friel

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The Cambridge Companion to Brian Friel

About this book

Brian Friel is widely recognized as Ireland's greatest living playwright, winning an international reputation through such acclaimed works as Translations (1980) and Dancing at Lughnasa (1990). This 2006 collection of specially commissioned essays includes contributions from leading commentators on Friel's work (including two fellow playwrights) and explores the entire range of his career from his 1964 breakthrough with Philadelphia, Here I Come! to his most recent success in Dublin and London with The Home Place (2005). The essays approach Friel's plays both as literary texts and as performed drama, and provide the perfect introduction for students of both English and Theatre Studies, as well as theatregoers. The collection considers Friel's lesser-known works alongside his more celebrated plays and provides a comprehensive critical survey of his career. This is a comprehensive study of Friel's work, and includes a chronology and further reading suggestions.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. The Cambridge Companion to: Brian Friel
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. CONTENTS
  6. CONTRIBUTORS
  7. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  8. NOTE ON THE TEXT
  9. CHRONOLOGY
  10. 1 Introduction
  11. 2 The early plays
  12. 3 Surviving the 1960s: three plays by Brian Friel 1968–1971
  13. 4 Friel and the Northern Ireland “Troubles” play
  14. 5 Family affairs: Friel’s plays of the late 1970s
  15. 6 Five ways of looking at Faith Healer
  16. 7 Translations, the Field Day debate and the re-imagining of Irish identity
  17. 8 Dancing at Lughnasa and the unfinished revolution
  18. 9 The late plays
  19. 10 Friel’s Irish Russia
  20. 11 Friel and performance history
  21. 12 Friel’s dramaturgy: the visual dimension
  22. 13 Performativity, unruly bodies and gender in Brian Friel’s drama
  23. 14 Brian Friel as postcolonial playwright
  24. SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
  25. INDEX