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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.

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A deeply thoughtful, comprehensively informed study of the greatest living playwright of the English-speaking world. From now on, anyone who wants to write about Brian Friel will need to take this book into account. - Terry Teachout, drama critic, the Wall Street Journal Modernity, Community, and Place in Brian Friel's Drama is written by a scholar with keen insight into contemporary Irish and Northern Irish culture. . . . His evocative readings of such plays as Philadelphia, Here I Come!, Faith Healer, and The Freedom of the City have significantly revised my understanding of this distinguished body of drama. Simply put, it's a terrific book. - Stephen Watt, author of Beckett and Contemporary Irish Writing

A deeply thoughtful, comprehensively informed study of the greatest living playwright of the English-speaking world. From now on, anyone who wants to write about Brian Friel will need to take this book into account. - Terry Teachout, drama critic, the <em>Wall Street Journal</em> <br><br> <em>Modernity, Community, and Place in Brian Friel's Drama</em> is written by a scholar with keen insight into contemporary Irish and Northern Irish culture... His evocative readings of such plays as Philadelphia, Here I Come!, Faith Healer, and The Freedom of the City have significantly revised my understanding of this distinguished body of drama. Simply put, it's a terrific book. - Stephen Watt, author of <em>Beckett and Contemporary Irish Writing<em>

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Richard Rankin Russell is professor of Irish and British literature at Baylor University, USA. He is the editor and author of numerous books, including Poetry and Peace: Michael Longley, Seamus Heaney, and Northern Ireland.

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