Brian Friel : plays
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Brian Friel : plays
（Faber contemporary classics）
Faber and Faber, 1996-
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Selected plays
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This collection first published in 1984 as Selected Plays, reissued as Brian Friel: Plays One in 1996
Vol. 2-3: Introduced by Christopher Murray
Contents of Works
- 1. Philadelphia, here I come!
- The freedom of the city
- Living quarters
- Aristocrats
- Faith healer
- Translations
- 2. Dancing at Lughnasa
- Fathers and sons
- Making history
- Wonderful Tennessee
- Molly Sweeney
- 3. Three sisters
- A month in the country
- Uncle Vanya
- The Yalta game
- The bear
- Afterplay
- Performances
- The home place
- Hedda Gabler
Description and Table of Contents
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1 ISBN 9780571177677
Description
With the production of Philadelphia, Here I Come! in 1964, Brian Friel established his claim to be the true heir of such distinguished predecessors as Yeats, Synge, O'Casey and Beckett. Since then his work has consistently demonstrated that his strength is an equal awareness of the conditions of individual lives and the historical and political forces affecting them. The plays in this first volume (Philadelphia, Here I Come!, The Freedom of the City, Living Quarters, Aristocrats, Faith Healer and Translations) are introduced by Professor Seamus Deane of University College, Dublin.
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2 ISBN 9780571197101
Description
This second collection of Brian Friel's plays includes some of his most acclaimed work for the stage. The plays included are Dancing at Lughnasa, Fathers and Sons, Making History, Wonderful Tennessee and Molly Sweeney. The collection is introduced by Christopher Murray.
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3 ISBN 9780571309863
Description
This third collection by Brian Friel contains two original works: Performances, which considers the relationship between the private life and public work of the composer Leos Janacek; and The Home Place, set in Ballybeg, Donegal, at the dawn of Home Rule. There are three masterful plays based on stories by Chekhov; and Friel's exquisite versions of Three Sisters and Uncle Vanya, of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler and of Turgenev's A Month in the Country.
Performances
'A minor work the way Thomas Mann's Death in Venice or Beckett's Endgame is a minor work. Deceptively brisk and light in tone but taut and gravely pregnant with meaning... for Friel, life creates its own symbolism and poetry, and so it does in this play.' Sunday Times
The Home Place
'A rich, allusive, densely layered play, which has echoes of Friel's masterly Translations while reminding one that he has spent much of his recent life adapting and translating Chekhov... Friel hauntingly conveys the pathos of exile and the delusion of ownership.' Guardian
Hedda Gabler
'Across the gulf of the 20th century one great playwright is talking to another... neither a simple translation nor, as the official title has it, or a 'new version', but something altogether larger.' The Irish Times
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