Scott Boltwood

Brian Friel, Ireland, and the North

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

After nearly five decades as one of Ireland's most celebrated playwrights, Brian Friel has been the subject of ten books and dozens of articles. This study expands Friel criticism into a sizeable body of new material and into a new interpretative direction. Along with considering Friel's most recent plays, the book analyzes his interviews and essays to chart the author's ideological evolution throughout a career of more than forty years. Moreover, a chapter is devoted to his previously ignored articles for The Irish Press (1962-1963), a series that reveals unsuspected insights into Friel's disposition towards the Irish Republic. Refining our understanding of Friel's relationship to Republicanism is central to the argument; rather than assuming that the author embraces nationalist ideology, the book relocates the conceptual concerns of his work away from Dublin and to 'The North', this bridge between Ireland and the British province of Northern Ireland.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 162mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9780521873864
• ISBN-10: 052187386X
• Artikelnr.: 22577229

Autorenporträt

Scott Boltwood is Assistant Professor in the English Department at Emory Henry College, Virginia.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Friel, criticism, and theory
1. The Irish Press essays, 1962-1963: alien and native
2. The plays of the 1960s: assessing partition's aftermath
3. The plays of the 1970s: interrogating nationalism
4. Plays 1980-1993: the North
5. Plays 1994-2005: retreat from Ireland: The Home Place.