The reception of Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa confirmed his status as Ireland’s leading dramatist. The body of work that he produced is outstanding in its breadth of sympathy and…

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…

A Critical Companion to the theatre of Ireland’s foremost living playwright, whose work spans fifty years and has won numerous awards, including three Tonys and a Lifetime Achievement Arts Award…

Set in Londonderry in 1970, this gripping drama by the acclaimed author of Faith Healer and Translations explores the ongoing Irish troubles that plague the country to this day.

Includes Three Sisters (after Chekhov); The Communication Cord; Fathers and Sons (after Turgenev); Making History; Dancing at Lughnasa.

Brian Friel evokes the interior landscape of a group of human beings trapped in their domestic situation and also the wider landscape, interior and exterior, Christian and pagan, of which…

This is a critical study of Friel’s oeuvre, relating Friel’s work to the problems of subjectivity, representation, history and the body, with a view to offering some placement of Friel…

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Literatur, Note: 2,0, Otto-von-Guericke-Universitat Magdeburg (Institut fur Fremdsprachliche Philologien), Veranstaltung: Literature - Contemporary Irish Drama, 30 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch…