Cambridge Companion to Brian Friel

Informationen zum Autor Anthony Roche is Senior Lecturer in English and Drama at University College Dublin. Klappentext The most up to date and comprehensive critical approaches to Ireland's greatest living playwright. Zusammenfassung 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 essays is a comprehensive study of Friel's! and includes a chronology and further reading suggestions. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction Anthony Roche; 2. The early plays Thomas Kilroy; 3. Surviving the sixties: three plays by Brian Friel 1968-71 Frank McGuinness; 4. Friel and the Northern Ireland 'Troubles' play Stephen Watt; 5. Family affairs: Friel's plays of the late seventies Anthony Roche; 6. Five ways of looking at Faith Healer Nicholas Grene; 7. Translations, the Field Day debate and the re-imagining of Irish identity Martine Pelletier; 8. Dancing at Lughnasa and the unfinished revolution Helen Lojek; 9. The late plays George O'Brien; 10. Friel's Irish Russia Richard Pine; 11. Friel and performance history Patrick Burke; 12. Friel's dramaturgy: the visual dimension Richard Allen Cave; 13. Performativity, unruly bodies and gender in Brian Friel's drama Anna McMullan; 14. Brian Friel as postcolonial playwright Csilla Bertha; Select bibliography; Index.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Anthony Roche, Anthony (University College Dublin) Roche
• Con la collaborazione di: Anthony Roche (Editore), Anthony (University College Dublin) Roche (Editore), Roche Anthony (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 19.10.2006
• EAN: 9780521666862
• ISBN: 978-0-521-66686-2
• Pagine: 198
• Serie: Cambridge Companions to Literature; Cambridge Companions to Litera; Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese; English, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Theatre Studies, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: plays and playwrights