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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: theatre of Brian Friel
    sub title: tradition and modernity
  title info:
    title: Theater of Brian Friel
  name:
    name part: Murray, Christopher
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 299 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: "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 principle 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"--
  table of contents: Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Situating Friel -- 2. Coming of Age: Philadelphia, Here I Come! -- 3. Formation of an Aesthetic: The Loves of Cass McGuire and Crystal and Fox -- 4. Speaking Out: The Freedom of the City and Volunteers -- 5. Uncertainty, Memory, Tragedy: Living Quarters and Faith Healer -- 6. A Kind of Trilogy: Making History, Translations and The Home Place -- 7. The Chekhov Factor and Gender Issues: Aristocrats, Dancing at Lughnasa and Molly Sweeney -- 8. 'The Vodka-and-Tonic Society': Wonderful Tennessee and Give Me Your Answer, Do! -- 9. Critical Perspectives: Shaun Richards, 'Placed Identities for Placeless Times: Brian Friel and Post-Colonial Criticism' -- David Krause, 'The Failed Words of Brian Friel' -- Csilla Bertha, 'Art as a lieu de memoire in Brian Friel's The Home Place'10 -- Performances -- 11. End Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Notes on contributors -- Index.
  note: Christopher Murray.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-ie---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Friel, Brian
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Friel, Brian
    topic: Themes, motives
  subject:
    topic: Dialectic in literature
  subject:
    geographic: Ireland
    topic: In literature
  subject:
    topic: PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Playwriting
  subject:
    topic: PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Playwriting / bisacsh
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Friel, Brian
      name part: 1929-
  classification: PR6056.R5 Z836 2014
  classification: 822/.914
  classification: PER011030
  classification: HG 290
  classification: HN 3445
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Critical companions (London, England)
  identifier: 9781408157343 (HB)
  identifier: 1408157349 (HB)
  identifier: 9781408154496 (PB)
  identifier: 1408154498 (PB)
  identifier: 9781408154502 (e-book)
  identifier: 1408154501
  identifier: 9781408154502
  identifier: 9781408154519
  identifier: 140815451X
  identifier: 2013036201
  identifier: http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 131101
    record change date: 20180428063013.0
    record identifier: in00003479161
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng