About Friel

Author : Tony Coult
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780571282661

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About Friel by Tony Coult Pdf

This series contains what no other study guides can offer - extensive first-hand interviews with the playwrights and their closest collaborators on all of their major work, put together by top academics especially for the modern student market. As well as invaluable synopses, biographical essays and chronologies, these guides allow the student much closer to the playwright than ever before! In About Friel, teacher and playwright Tony Coult has selected an extensive and stimulating range of documents and interview material that explores Friel's life, work and the experiences of his collaborators and fellow artists who put that work on stage, including Patrick Mason, Connall Morrison, Joe Dowling and actors Catherine Byrne and Mark Lambert. If you want to read just one book on Brian Friel and the titanic power of his work, this is it.

Author : Joe Friel
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-02
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781646046072

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The Triathlete's Training Bible by Joe Friel Pdf

Friel is the most trusted coach in the world and his proven triathlon training program has helped hundreds of thousands find success in the sport of triathlon. Joe has completely rewritten this new 5th Edition of The Triathlete's Training Bible to incorporate new training principles and help athletes train smarter than ever.

Author : Richard Rankin Russell
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780815655060

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Modernity, Community, and Place in Brian Friel's Drama by Richard Rankin Russell Pdf

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 culture and on the imagined communities he strove to create between readers, and script, actors and audience.

Author : Christopher Murray
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781408154519

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The Theatre of Brian Friel by Christopher Murray Pdf

Brian Friel is Ireland's foremost living playwright, whose work spans fifty years and has won numerous awards, including three Tonys and a Lifetime Achievement Arts Award. Author of twenty-five plays, and whose work is studied at GCSE and A level (UK), and the Leaving Certificate (Ire), besides at undergraduate level, he is regarded as a classic in contemporary drama studies. 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. Beginning with Friel's 1964 work Philadelphia, Here I Come!, Christopher Murray follows a broadly chronological route through the principal plays, including Aristocrats, Faith Healer, Translations, Dancing at Lughnasa, Molly Sweeney and The Home Place. Along the way it considers themes of exile, politics, fathers and sons, belief and ritual, history, memory, gender inequality, and loss, all set against the dialectic of tradition and modernity. It is supplemented by essays from Shaun Richards, David Krause and Csilla Bertha providing varying critical perspectives on the playwright's work.

Author : Anthony Roche
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139827676

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The Cambridge Companion to Brian Friel by Anthony Roche Pdf

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.

Author : Brian Friel
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0472067109

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Brian Friel in Conversation by Brian Friel Pdf

Reflections by the author of Dancing at Lughnasa on Irish writers, the theater, nationalism, Catholicism, and his childhood

Author : William Kerwin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0815324782

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Brian Friel by William Kerwin Pdf

First published in 1997

Author : Scott Boltwood
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137523068

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Brian Friel by Scott Boltwood Pdf

This essential guide provides a deeply informed survey of the criticism of all the plays and major stories authored by Brian Friel. Scott Boltwood introduces readers to the key themes that have been used to characterise Friel's entire career, moving chronologically from his early work as a successful short story writer to the present day. This is an essential text for dedicated modules or courses on Modern or Contemporary British and Irish drama offered as part of English literature degrees, or for the literature and culture modules of undergraduate and postgraduate Irish studies degrees. In addition, this book is an ideal companion for A-level students reading Friel's plays, or anyone with an interest in this complex writer's career.

Author : Zosia Kuczyńska
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031179051

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Brian Friel's Models of Influence by Zosia Kuczyńska Pdf

Author : Brian Friel
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1904505171

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Brian Friel's Dramatic Artistry by Brian Friel Pdf

Essays on Irish playwright, Brian Friel

Author : Geraldine Higgins
Publisher : Writers and Their Work (Paperb
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780746308196

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Brian Friel by Geraldine Higgins Pdf

Brian Friel is Ireland's leading living playwright, a fact that is easily observable on the billboards of Derry Dublin, London and New York. These locations are also essential in understanding the range and reach of Friel's theatrical concerns and his projected audience. From his first major success on the stage, Philadelphia Here I Come! in 1964 to his most recent play, The Home Place in 2005, Friel has revived and revised the Irish tradition of verbal theatre. This book examines Friel's work within the context of Irish storytelling. It also considers his position as a writer from the north of Ireland negotiating between the responsibilities of art and the demands of violent conflict. Friel's work forms the cornerstone of contemporary Irish drama and this comprehensive study shows why he is recognized as one of the most significant and influential playwrights writing today.

Author : A. Roche
Publisher : Springer
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230305533

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Brian Friel by A. Roche Pdf

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 impact on world theatre. This study draws on the Friel Archive to deepen our understanding of how his plays were developed.

Author : Gaby Frey
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783772055348

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Private Goes Public: Self-Narrativisation in Brian Friel's Plays by Gaby Frey Pdf

In Brian Friel's writing, the distinction between public and private is closely linked to the concepts of home, family, identity and truth. This study examines the characters' excessive introspection and their deep-seated need to disclose their most intimate knowledge and private truths to define who they are and, thus, to oppose dominant discourse or avoid heteronomy. This study begins by investigating how a number of Anglo-Irish writers publicised their characters' private versions of truth thereby illustrating what they perceived to be the space of 'Irishness'. The book then focuses on Friel's techniques of sharing his character's private views to demonstrate how he adopted and adapted these practices in his own oeuvre. As the characters' superficial inarticulateness and their vivid inner selves are repeatedly juxtaposed in Friel's texts, his oeuvre, quintessentially, displays a great unease with the concepts of communication and absolute truth.

Author : Alan J. Peacock
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0861403495

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The Achievement of Brian Friel by Alan J. Peacock Pdf

The reception of Brian Friel's recent Dancing at Lughnasa confirms his status as Ireland's leading dramatist. The body of work that he has produced is outstanding in its breadth of sympathy and interest, its dramaturgical invention and its wide cultural and intellectual purview. At one level, it may be seen as a continuous examination of Irish culture and politics, committed and analytical, but not sectionally propagandist. His outlook in his drama, however, is not amenable to simplistic categorization, political or otherwise. As this volume demonstrates, linguistically, allusively, and in terms of its broad transcultural analogising, his work ranges widely. He utilises ideas and terminologies drawn from various cultural sources and academic disciplines in a way that exemplifies his central, insistent concern with the phenomenon of language and implications. As an Irish dramatist, however, he makes Irish social, political and, notably, family life his focus and builds upon a recognised tradition of twentieth century Irish play-writing. This book addresses the variety and complexity of Friel's drama by bringing to bear a range of academic and other professional and creative approaches in order to highlight particular aspects of his work and thought. Hence, contributors include a playwright, poet, theatre-producer, historian and various specialists in relevant literatures. In this way, the book suggests the intellectual richness, humanity, and protean skill and invention of the work.

Author : F. C. McGrath
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999-12-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0815628137

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Brian Friel's (Post) Colonial Drama by F. C. McGrath Pdf

Brian Friel is Ireland's most important living playwright, and this book places him in the new canon of postcolonial writers. Drawing on the theory and techniques of the major postcolonial critics, F. C. McGrath offers fresh interpretations of Friel's texts and of his place in the tradition of linguistic idealism in Irish literature. This idealism has dominated Ireland's still incomplete emergence from its colonial past. It appeals to Irish writers like Friel who, following in a line from Yeats, Synge, and O'Casey, challenge British culture with antirealistic, antimirnetic devices to create alternative worlds, histories, and new identities to escape stereotypes imposed by the colonizers. Friel grew up in Northern Ireland's Catholic minority and now lives in the Irish Republic. McGrath maintains that all Friel's work is marked by colonial and postcolonial structures. Like his predecessor Wilde, Friel mixes lies, facts, memories, and individual perception to create new myths and elevates blarney to a realm of aesthetic and philosophical distinction. An important, accessible, scholarly introduction, this book illustrates how Friel playfully subverts the English language and transcends British influence. Friel's reality is constructed from personal fiction, and it is his liberating response to oppression.