Brian Friel and Ireland's Drama

by RichardPine (Author)

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  Paperback
  1990

  $4.94

  Brian Friel is a respected Irish playwright whose reputation is growing rapidly in Britain and the United States. This full-length assessment of Friel and his work identifies him as the Irish Chekhov , and places him in the context of the development of Irish drama and of the European theatrical tradition. Richard Pine looks at Friel's role as a man of the theatre, and as a political activist, and provides a framework for understanding his origins as an Ulsterman. He follows Friel's exploration of different concepts of Irishness , investigates the role of drama in modern Irish society, and locates Friel firmly in the vanguard of writers who are exploring the emergence of a modern nation state.