Book contents
- Frontmatter
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The early plays
- 3 Surviving the 1960s: three plays by Brian Friel 1968-1971
- 4 Friel and the Northern Ireland “Troubles” play
- 5 Family affairs: Friel’s plays of the late 1970s
- 6 Five ways of looking at Faith Healer
- 7 Translations, the Field Day debate and the re-imagining of Irish identity
- 8 Dancing at Lughnasaand the unfinished revolution
- 9 The late plays
- 10 Friel’s Irish Russia
- 11 Friel and performance history
- 12 Friel’s dramaturgy: the visual dimension
- 13 Performativity, unruly bodies and gender in Brian Friel’s drama
- 14 Brian Friel as postcolonial playwright
- Bibliography
- Index
Frontmatter
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The early plays
- 3 Surviving the 1960s: three plays by Brian Friel 1968-1971
- 4 Friel and the Northern Ireland “Troubles” play
- 5 Family affairs: Friel’s plays of the late 1970s
- 6 Five ways of looking at Faith Healer
- 7 Translations, the Field Day debate and the re-imagining of Irish identity
- 8 Dancing at Lughnasaand the unfinished revolution
- 9 The late plays
- 10 Friel’s Irish Russia
- 11 Friel and performance history
- 12 Friel’s dramaturgy: the visual dimension
- 13 Performativity, unruly bodies and gender in Brian Friel’s drama
- 14 Brian Friel as postcolonial playwright
- Bibliography
- Index
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- The Cambridge Companion to Brian Friel , pp. i - xviPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006