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Brian Friel

Oxford Bibliographies Online Datasets, 2018
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 ...
S. Richards
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Fragmentation in Brian Friel's Selected Plays

Wisdom Journal For Studies & Research
                 Reared in Northern Ireland, Brian Friel has experienced the dividedness of his country ever since childhood. He addresses issues such as the workings of memory, history, and past on the people of Ballybeg. The aim of this research is to shed light on the techniques of fragmentation which Friel has experimented with.
Aseel Hatif Jassam Alsalmani, Hadeel Hatif Jassam Alsalmani   +1 more
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El Teatro de Brian Friel

Esta monografía ofrece una panorámica de la dramaturgia de Brian Friel (Omagh, 1929-2015), considerado el autor teatral más influyente de Irlanda durante el último cuarto del siglo XX. Su obra se aborda desde un enfoque teórico que integra perspectivas poscoloniales y estudios contemporáneos sobre la dialéctica de la memoria, tanto en su dimensión ...
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“A Hydra with a Thousand Heads”: Dis(ease) and Wellness in Harold Pinter’s A Kind of Alaska and Brian Friel’s Molly Sweeney

The Harold Pinter Review, 2023
This study examines the social structure of healthcare through Talcott Parsons’s sick role concept from his seminal work The Social System (1951), analyzing the characters of Deborah in Harold Pinter’s A Kind of Alaska (1982) and Molly in Brian Friel’s
Farah Ali
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Brian Friel's Models of Influence

2023
Zosia Kuczyńska
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"God's special men": Missionaries in Brian Friel's Early Work

Christianity & Literature, 2023
:Brian Friel's unpublished play The Blind Mice (1963) and his short story "Foundry House" (1961) demonstrate his fascination with the unique type of exile represented by the Irish missionary.
S. Boeninger
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Zosia Kuczyńska. Brian Friel’s Models of Influence

Modern Drama
This monograph analyses the sources for Brian Friel’s plays as found in the Brian Friel Papers at the National Library of Ireland, making by far the most extensive use of these archival holdings of any previous study.
Richard Rankin Russell
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The Home Place

, 2005
The year is 1878. The widowed Christopher Gore, his son David and their housekeeper Margaret, the woman with whom they are both in love, live at The Lodge in Ballybeg.
Brian Friel
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Irish Studies and the Adequacy of Theory: The Case of Brian Friel

Yearbook of English Studies, 2022
:Postcolonial theory is both the most frequently asserted and consistently disputed means of reading contemporary Ireland's literature and culture, central to which has been the contribution of the Field Day Theatre Company and its one-time senior ...
S. Richards
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Stage Directions and the Insistent Narrator in Brian Friel

Style, 2022
:This is a study of the covert narrator in Brian Friel’s plays and is part of a growing interest in narratology in theater. The covert narrator is revealed to readers by means of stage directions, divided into two types: those that can reach the audience
R. Looby
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