CRITICISM

Adams, Phoebe. Review of The Saucer of Larks, by Brian Friel. The Atlantic Monthly 210, no. 3 (September 1962): 124.

Brief positive review of The Saucer of Larks.

Andrews, Elmer. Introduction to The Art of Brian Friel, pp. 8-44. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England: St. Martin's Press, 1995.

Discusses the defining characteristics of Friel's short stories, maintaining he “is both inside and outside his society, the respectful and affectionate delineator of a recognizable landscape and community that he writes about from deep down in his environment and, at the same time, the critically detached observer, consciously setting out to loosen up, to interrogate and subvert the set patterns of thought and feeling, the fixed discourses, the stereotypes of routine perception.”

Harp, Richard Robert C. Evans, eds. A Companion to Brian Friel, pp. 510. West Cornwall, Conn.: Locust Hill Press, 2002.

Contains three critical essays on Friel's short fiction.

O'Brien, George. Brian Friel: A Reference Guide, 1962-1992, pp. 136. New York: G. K. Hall & Co., 1995.

Primary and secondary bibliography of Friel.

Additional coverage of Friel's life and career is contained in the following sources published by Thomson Gale: British Writers Supplement, Vol. 5; Contemporary Authors, Vols. 21-24R; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vols. 33, 69, 131; Contemporary British Dramatists; Contemporary Dramatists, Ed. 5; Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vols. 5, 42, 59, 115; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 13; Drama Criticism, Vol. 8; Drama for Students, Vol. 11; Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century, Ed. 3; Literature Resource Center; Major 20th-Century Writers, Ed. 1; Reference Guide to English Literature, Ed. 2; and Twayne's English Authors.