Brian Friel

Brian Friel Criticism

• Friel, Brian (Vol. 115)
  • Introduction
  • Principal Works
  • Criticism
    • Chekov in Ireland: Brief Notes on Friel's Philadelphia
    • Homecoming: The Theme of Disillusionment in Brian Friel's Short Stories
    • Friel and the Politics of Language Play
    • The Disintegration of Authority: A Study of the Fathers in Five Plays of Brian Friel
    • Brecht and Friel: Some Irish Parallels
    • Brian Friel: Transcending the Irish National Pastime
    • Work in Progress
    • Brian Friel's Plays and George Steiner's Linguistics: Translating the Irish
    • Telling Stories and Making History: Brian Friel and Field Day
    • Schizophrenia and the Politics of Experience in Three Plays by Brian Friel
  • Further Reading
• Friel, Brian (Vol. 5)
• Friel, Brian (Drama Criticism)
  • Introduction
  • Principal Works
  • Overviews And General Studies
    • The Romanticism of Brian Friel
    • Brian Friel: The Double Stage
    • Brian Friel: Transcending the Irish National Pastime
    • Schizophrenia and the Politics of Experience in Three Plays by Brian Friel
  • Philadelphia, Here I Come!
    • Philadelphia, Here I Come! Arrives
    • The Most Distressful Country
    • Going Through Emigration
    • The Public Face and the Private Self
    • Chekov in Ireland: Brief Notes on Friel's Philadelphia
    • The Road to Philadelphia
  • Translations
    • Derry Translations
    • A Play Worthy of Translations
    • Translations from Brian Friel
    • What's in a Name?
    • Language Play: Brian Friel and Ireland's Verbal Theatre
    • Brian Friel's Translations: National and Universal Dimensions
  • Dancing At Lughnasa
    • Review of Dancing at Lughnasa
    • Rich Harvest
    • The Belles of Balleybeg
    • Potent Memories, Great Joys
    • Foregrounding the Body: The Plays of the 1990s
    • The Failed Words of Brian Friel
  • Further Reading
• Friel, Brian (Short Story Criticism)
  • Introduction
  • Principal Works
  • Criticism
    • Background and Themes: The Short Stories
    • Homecoming: The Theme of Disillusionment in Brian Friel's Short Stories
    • Introduction to The Diviner
    • Friel's Literary Landscapes: The Short Stories
    • Storyteller and Playwright
    • The Short Stories
    • Back to ‘Foundry House’: Brian Friel and the Short Story
    • ‘Donging the Tower–The Past Did Have Meaning’: The Short Stories of Brian Friel
    • Personal Devices: Two Representative Stories by Brian Friel
    • Divining Stories: Underground Water in the Short Stories of Brian Friel
  • Further Reading