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The Cambridge Companion to Brian Friel

Author : Anthony Roche
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139827677
Total Pages : 7 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Brian Friel written by Anthony Roche and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-19 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 specially commissioned essays includes contributions from leading commentators on Friel's work (including two fellow playwrights) and explores the entire range of his career from his 1964 breakthrough with Philadelphia, Here I Come! to his most recent success in Dublin and London with The Home Place (2005). The essays approach Friel's plays both as literary texts and as performed drama, and provide the perfect introduction for students of both English and Theatre Studies, as well as theatregoers. The collection considers Friel's lesser-known works alongside his more celebrated plays and provides a comprehensive critical survey of his career. This is a comprehensive study of Friel's work, and includes a chronology and further reading suggestions.

The Cambridge Companion to Ben Jonson

Author : Richard Harp
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521646789
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (467 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Ben Jonson written by Richard Harp and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-11-30 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible, up-to-date introduction to the life and works of poet and dramatist Ben Jonson.

The Cambridge Companion to Chekhov

Author : Vera Gottlieb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139825658
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Chekhov written by Vera Gottlieb and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-11-04 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of specially commissioned essays explores the world of Anton Chekhov - one of the most important dramatists in the repertoire - and the creation, performance and interpretation of his works. The Companion, first published in 2000, begins with an examination of Chekhov's life, his Russia, and the original productions of his plays at the Moscow Art Theatre. Later film versions and adaptations of Chekhov's works are analysed, with valuable insights also offered on acting Chekhov, by Ian McKellen, and directing Chekhov, by Trevor Nunn and Leonid Heifetz. The volume also provides essays on 'special topics' such as Chekhov as writer, Chekhov and women, and the Chekhov comedies and stories. Key plays, such as The Cherry Orchard and The Seagull, receive dedicated chapters while lesser-known works and genres are also brought to light. The volume concludes with appendices of primary sources, lists of works, and a select bibliography.

The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Synge

Author : P. J. Mathews
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521110106
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Synge written by P. J. Mathews and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-11-19 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces students to the work of one of Ireland's most important playwrights.

The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama

Author : Shaun Richards
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521008730
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (87 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama by : Shaun Richards

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama written by Shaun Richards and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-29 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Private Goes Public: Self-Narrativisation in Brian Friel's Plays

Author : Gaby Frey
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3772055346
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Private Goes Public: Self-Narrativisation in Brian Friel's Plays written by Gaby Frey and published by Narr Francke Attempto Verlag. This book was released on 2015-11-25 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Brian Friel's writing, the distinction between public and private is closely linked to the concepts of home, family, identity and truth. This study examines the characters' excessive introspection and their deep-seated need to disclose their most intimate knowledge and private truths to define who they are and, thus, to oppose dominant discourse or avoid heteronomy. This study begins by investigating how a number of Anglo-Irish writers publicised their characters' private versions of truth thereby illustrating what they perceived to be the space of 'Irishness'. The book then focuses on Friel's techniques of sharing his character's private views to demonstrate how he adopted and adapted these practices in his own oeuvre. As the characters' superficial inarticulateness and their vivid inner selves are repeatedly juxtaposed in Friel's texts, his oeuvre, quintessentially, displays a great unease with the concepts of communication and absolute truth.

The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature

Author : Eva-Marie Kröller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107159628
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature written by Eva-Marie Kröller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-08 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fully revised second edition of this multi-author account of Canadian literature, from Aboriginal writing to Margaret Atwood.

Brian Friel

Author : A. Roche
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230305539
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Brian Friel written by A. Roche and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friel is recognised as Ireland's leading playwright and due to the ability of plays like Translations and Dancing at Lughnasa to translate into other cultures he has made a major impact on world theatre. This study draws on the Friel Archive to deepen our understanding of how his plays were developed.

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature

Author : Richard Bradford
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119652642
Total Pages : 912 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature written by Richard Bradford and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE WILEY BLACKWELL COMPANION TO CONTEMPORARY BRITISH AND IRISH LITERATURE An insightful guide to the exploration of modern British and Irish literature The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature is a must-have guide for anyone hoping to navigate the world of new British and Irish writing. Including modern authors and poets from the 1960s through to the 21st century, the Companion provides a thorough overview of contemporary poetry, fiction, and drama by some of the most prominent and noteworthy writers. Seventy-three comprehensive chapters focus on individual authors as well as such topics as Englishness and identity, contemporary Science Fiction, Black writing in Britain, crime fiction, and the influence of globalization on British and Irish Literature. Written in four parts, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature includes comprehensive examinations of individual authors, as well as a variety of themes that have come to define the contemporary period: ethnicity, gender, nationality, and more. A thorough guide to the main figures and concepts in contemporary literature from Britain and Ireland, this two-volume set: Includes studies of notable figures such as Seamus Heaney and Angela Carter, as well as more recently influential writers such as Zadie Smith and Sarah Waters. Covers topics such as LGBT fiction, androgyny in contemporary British Literature, and post-Troubles Northern Irish Fiction Features a broad range of writers and topics covered by distinguished academics Includes an analysis of the interplay between individual authors and the major themes of the day, and whether an examination of the latter enables us to appreciate the former. The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature provides essential reading for students as well as academics seeking to learn more about the history and future direction of contemporary British and Irish Literature.

Brian Friel

Author : Scott Boltwood
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350308749
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Brian Friel written by Scott Boltwood and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential guide provides a deeply informed survey of the criticism of all the plays and major stories authored by Brian Friel. Scott Boltwood introduces readers to the key themes that have been used to characterise Friel's entire career, moving chronologically from his early work as a successful short story writer to the present day. This is an essential text for dedicated modules or courses on Modern or Contemporary British and Irish drama offered as part of English literature degrees, or for the literature and culture modules of undergraduate and postgraduate Irish studies degrees. In addition, this book is an ideal companion for A-level students reading Friel's plays, or anyone with an interest in this complex writer's career.

Modernity, Community, and Place in Brian Friel's Drama

Author : Richard Rankin Russell
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815652348
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Modernity, Community, and Place in Brian Friel's Drama written by Richard Rankin Russell and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modernity, Community, and Place in Brian Friel’s Drama shows how the leading Irish playwright explores a series of dynamic physical and intellectual environments, charting the impact of modernity on rural culture and on the imagined communities he strives to create between readers, and script, actors and audience.

The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Synge

Author : P. J. Mathews
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113982483X
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Synge written by P. J. Mathews and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-11-19 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Millington Synge was a leading literary figure of the Irish Revival who played a significant role in the founding of Dublin's Abbey Theatre in 1904. This Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to the whole range of Synge's work from well-known plays like Riders to the Sea, The Well of the Saints and The Playboy of the Western World, to his influential prose work The Aran Islands. The essays provide detailed and insightful analyses of individual texts, as well as perceptive reflections on his engagements with the Irish language, processes of decolonisation, gender, modernism and European culture. Critical accounts of landmark productions in Ireland and America are also included. With a guide to further reading and a chronology, this book will introduce students of drama, postcolonial studies, and Irish studies as well as theatregoers to one of the most influential and controversial dramatists of the twentieth century.

The Theatre of Brian Friel

Author : Christopher Murray
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408154501
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Theatre of Brian Friel written by Christopher Murray and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 principal 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.

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature

Author : Richard Bradford
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119653061
Total Pages : 912 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (196 download)

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Joyce and Reality

Author : John Gordon
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815630197
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Joyce and Reality written by John Gordon and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2004-05-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Joyce was a realist, but his reality was not ours," writes John Gordon in his new book. Here, he maintains that the shifting styles and techniques of Joyce's works is a function of two interacting realities the external reality of a particular time and place and the internal reality of a character's mental state. In making this case Gordon offers up a number of new readings: how Stephen Dedalus conceives and composes his villanelle; why the Dubliners story about Little Chandler is titled "A Little Cloud"; why Gerty MacDowell suddenly appears and disappears; what is happening when Leopold Bloom stares for two minutes on end at a beer bottle's label; why the triangle etched at the center of Finnegans Wake doubles itself and grows a pair of circles; why the next to last chapter of Ulysses has, by far, the book's highest incidence of the letter C; and who is the man in the macintosh. Gordon, whose authoritative "Finnegans Wake": A Plot Summary received critical acclaim and is considered one of the standard references, revisesand challengesthe received version of that reality. For instance, Joyce features ghost visitations, telepathy, and other paranormal phenomena not as "flights into fantasy" but because he believed in the real possibility of such occurrences.

Twentieth-Century Irish Drama

Author : Christopher Murray
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815606437
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Twentieth-Century Irish Drama written by Christopher Murray and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2000-05-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work provides an overview of Irish theatre, read in the light of Ireland's self-definition. Mediating between history and its relations with politics and art, it attempts to do justice to the enabling and mirroring preoccupations of Irish drama.

Brian Friel

Author : Geraldine Higgins
Publisher : Writers and Their Work (Paperb
ISBN 13 : 0746308191
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (463 download)

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Download or read book Brian Friel written by Geraldine Higgins and published by Writers and Their Work (Paperb. This book was released on 2010 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brian Friel is Ireland's leading living playwright, a fact that is easily observable on the billboards of Derry Dublin, London and New York. These locations are also essential in understanding the range and reach of Friel's theatrical concerns and his projected audience. From his first major success on the stage, Philadelphia Here I Come! in 1964 to his most recent play, The Home Place in 2005, Friel has revived and revised the Irish tradition of verbal theatre. This book examines Friel's work within the context of Irish storytelling. It also considers his position as a writer from the north of Ireland negotiating between the responsibilities of art and the demands of violent conflict. Friel's work forms the cornerstone of contemporary Irish drama and this comprehensive study shows why he is recognized as one of the most significant and influential playwrights writing today.