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Author : Brian Friel
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0472067109
Reflections by the author of Dancing at Lughnasa on Irish writers, the theater, nationalism, Catholicism, and his childhood
Author : F. C. McGrath
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1999-12-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0815628137
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.
Author : Brian Friel
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780571288977
The action takes place in late August 1833 at a hedge-school in the townland of Baile Beag, an Irish-speaking community in County Donegal. In a nearby field camps a recently arrived detachment of the Royal Engineers, making the first Ordnance Survey. For the purposes of cartography, the local Gaelic place names have to be recorded and rendered into English. 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. "Translations" is a modern classic. It engages the intellect as well as the heart, and achieves a profound political and philosophical resonance through the detailed examination of individual lives, of particular people in particular place and time." Daily Telegraph "This is Brian Friel's finest play, his most deeply thought and felt, the most deeply involved with Ireland but also the most universal: haunting and hard, lyrical and erudite, bitter and forgiving, both praise and lament." Sunday Times
Author : William Kerwin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0815324782
First published in 1997
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Aristocracy (Social class)
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Anthony Roche
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139827676
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 : Christopher Murray
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781408154502
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 : Brian Friel
Publisher : Dramatic Publishing
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0871292459
A collection of jokes, riddles, tongue twisters, tricks, games, poems, and stories.
Author : Zosia Kuczyńska
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031179051
Author : Richard Rankin Russell
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780815652342
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 strives to create between readers, and script, actors and audience.
Author : Gaby Frey
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783772055348
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 : Brian Friel
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780571288960
It is 1936 and harvest time in County Donegal. In a house just outside the village of Ballybeg live the five Mundy sisters, barely making ends meet, their ages ranging from twenty-six up to forty. The two male members of the household are brother Jack, a missionary priest, repatriated from Africa by his superiors after 25 years, and the seven-year-old child of the youngest sister. In depicting two days in the life of this menage, Brian Friel evokes not simply the interior landscape of a group of human beings trapped in their domestic situation, but the wider landscape, interior and exterior, Christian and pagan, of which they are a part.
Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410343635
A Study Guide for Brian Friel's "Dancing at Lughnasa," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.
Author : Brian Friel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:b81014269
Author : Nesta Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0571197795
Is your enjoyment of Brian Friel's work hampered by a lack of Irish historical knowledge? Are you studying his plays and looking for help with interpretation? Do you teach Friel and need reliable guide to the plays? A Faber Critical Guide to Brian Friel's major work gives all this and more.It gives an introduction to the distinctive features of the playwright's work; it explains the significance of the playwright in the context of modern theatre; it provides a detailed analysis of each of the classic plays in terms of language, structure and character; and it includes features of performance and a select bibliography.Compiled by experts in their field, for use in the classroom, college or at home, Faber Critical Guides are the essential companions to the work of leading dramatists.