1. Introduction Anthony Roche
2. The early plays Thomas Kilroy
3. Surviving the sixties: three plays by Brian Friel 1968-71 Frank McGuinness
4. Friel and the Northern Ireland 'Troubles' play Stephen Watt
5. Family affairs: Friel's plays of the late seventies Anthony Roche
6. Five ways of looking at Faith Healer Nicholas Grene
7. Translations, the Field Day debate and the re-imagining of Irish identity Martine Pelletier
8. Dancing at Lughnasa and the unfinished revolution Helen Lojek
9. The late plays George O'Brien
10. Friel's Irish Russia Richard Pine
11. Friel and performance history Patrick Burke
12. Friel's dramaturgy: the visual dimension Richard Allen Cave
13. Performativity, unruly bodies and gender in Brian Friel's drama Anna McMullan
14. Brian Friel as postcolonial playwright Csilla Bertha
Select bibliography
Index.
