Brian Friel

ISBN-13: 9781137523051 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 172 str.

Scott Boltwood

Opis

Brian Friel is the author of more than thirty plays and over one hundred stories. This Reader's Guide provides a deeply informed survey of the criticism of the major stories and all the plays of this Irish writer's long career.

Spis treści

Introduction.- 1. Early Journalism and Stories, 1957-1963.- 2. Early and 'Withdrawn' Plays.- 3. 'Philadelphia, Here I Come!' (1964).- 4. Plays of the Later 1960s.- 5. Plays of the Early 1970s.- 6. 'Living Quarters' (1977) and 'Aristocrats' (1979).- 7. 'Faith Healer' (1979).- 8. 'Translations' (1980).- 9. Plays of the 1980s.- 10. 'Dancing at Lughnasa' (1990).- 11. Plays of the 1990s.- 12. Last Plays.- Conclusion.

O autorze

Scott Boltwood is Henry Carter Stuart Professor of English and Chair of the English Department at Emory and Henry College, USA. He is the author of Brian Friel, Ireland, and The North (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and editor of Renegotiating and Resisting Nationalism in Twentieth-Century Irish Drama (Oxford University Press, 2009) and Stewart Love: Selected Plays (Lagan Press, 2010).