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Censorship Public and Censorship Private: Authority, Authenticity, and Acceptability in the Early Production History of Brian Friel’s Philadelphia, Here I Come!

Modern Drama
:The early production history of Brian Friel’s breakout play, Philadelphia, Here I Come! (1964), is, in many respects, a story of public and private censorship. By recovering that history through original archival research, I bring into focus a revealing
Zosia Kuczyńska
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Review of Brian Friel’s Models of Influence, by Zosia Kuczyńska

Review of Irish Studies in Europe
Review of Brian Friel’s Models of Influence, by Zosia Kuczyńska (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), 278 pp., ISBN: 978-3-031-17905-1, €117.69 (hardback)
Dilek Öztürk Yagci
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Brian Friel and Theodor W. Adorno

, 2022
This book discusses how from their different backgrounds and on different levels, the German philosopher, sociologist and musicologist,Theodor W. Adorno, (1903-1969) and the Irish playwright, Brian Friel,(1929-2015) came to the conclusion that the modern

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The Language of Ireland's Six-Inch Map: Theorizing Standardization in Brian Friel's Translations

Ariel: A Review of International English Literature, 2021
:Although Brian Friel's Translations (1980) dramatizes the process of linguistic standardization undertaken by the nineteenth-century Ordnance Survey of Ireland, scholars have yet to use standardization as a conceptual lens for reading the play. Building
Arielle H. Stambler
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Spectrality and Hospitality in Brian Friel’s Translations

Irish University Review
Drawing upon Richard Kearney’s readings of the theories of Paul Ricoeur and Jacques Derrida (although not entirely indebted to his interpretation of either thinker), this article proposes an examination of Brian Friel’s Translations that will elucidate ...
Graham Price
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Adaptation as Means of Revising Gender Relations in Brian Friel’s A Month in the Country

Focus
The aim of the present paper is to investigate Brian Friel’s A Month in the Country, in which the Irish writer refocuses attention to enhance the psychological nature of the drama and to allow space to the female voice that is given less emphasis in the ...
Anikó Bach
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Revisiting Brian Friel’s Translations through the lens of stage director Caitríona McLaughlin

Irish Studies Review
Brian Friel’s play Translations (1980), set in a 19th-century hedge school on the west coast of Ireland, chronicles the beginning of the decline of the Irish language.
María Gaviña-Costero
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Brian Friel, dramaturge postmoderne

Études irlandaises, 1996
« Postmodernism » acts as a foil to modernity, fashioning patterns of individual behaviour and contemporary arts. The following essay will discuss some of its ouward manifestations and its influence on the plays of Friel, whose native country must face up to modernity and its inevitable counterpart, postmodernism.
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‘A disoriented vision of … fact’: Brian Friel, Francis Bacon, and Faith Healer

, 2020
The Brian Friel Papers at the NLI reveal a long and relatively unexplored history of major and minor influences on Friel's plays. As the archive attests, these influences manifest themselves in ways that range from the superficial to the deeply ...
Z. Kuczyńska
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Brian Friel'S Adaptations of Chekhov

Irish Studies Review, 2005
This essay looks at the changing aspects of Brian Friel's long involvement with Chekhov's plays.
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