Overview

This book looks at the political and social aspects of Friel's drama, in the context of the development of modern Ireland. The plays' preoccupations are located in the framework of their internal, historical and literary time, and against the backdrop of the evolving Irish state in which they were written. This second edition covers all of Friel's drama, and contains an additional chapter on the Russian plays.Friel's plays have consistently explored themes of nationality and community, language and communication, social ritual and 'otherness'. His characters are at once familiarly recognizable and startlingly original. The seeming smallness of their lives mirrors the great movements of Irish society and history; the personal and the political are shown to be inextricably linked.Friel's dramatic works (among them Philadelphia Here I Come! and Translations ) are known all over the world. His multi-award-winning play Dancing at Lughnasa was released internationally as a motion picture in 1998.

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A useful analysis and synthesis of Friel's dramatic works. . . Corbett's writing style is markedly facile and accessible, and his logic clear and simply laid out, his arguments are powerful and shed a useful light on Friel's plays. . . A solid introduction to Friel's work. -- Choice Choice

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Tony Corbett is an independent scholar who has had an involvement with all aspects of the theatre since his early teens. He has published articles on many facets of literature and drama, from the Middle Ages to the present day, and in journals as diverse as Medieval English Theatre, Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama, and The Brazilian Journal of Irish Studies. He is an associate editor of The Irish Book Review, and a board member of the MIC Irish Studies Centre. He is presently working on a study of late medieval English mystery plays.

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