Criticism

Cullingford, Elizabeth. "British Romans and Irish Carthaginians: Anticolonial Metaphor in Heaney, Friel, and McGuiness." Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 111, No. 2 (March 1996): 222-239.

Elaborates the "imaginative Irish resistance" to British colonialism found in the work of Friel and two prominent contemporaries.

Grene, Nicholas. "In a Dark Time." Irish Literary Supplement (Spring 1995): 25.

A review of Molly Sweeney that compares the play to John Millington Synge's The Well of the Saints.

Peacock, Alan J., ed. The Achievement of Brian Friel. Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1993, 261 p.

A book of essays covering several of Friel's works from varied perspectives.