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Dancing at Lughnasa Faber & Faber, 2011 // Brian Friel // Dancing at Lughnasa // 2011 // 0571288960, 9780571288960 // 80 pages // It is 1936 and harvest time in County Donegal. In a house just outside the village of Ballybeg live the five Mundy sisters, barely making ends meet, their ages ranging from twenty-six up to forty. The two male members of the household are brother Jack, a missionary priest, repatriated from Africa by his superiors after 25 years, and the seven-year-old child of the youngest sister. In depicting two days in the life of this menage, Brian Friel evokes not simply the interior landscape of a group of human beings trapped in their domestic situation, but the wider landscape, interior and exterior, Christian and pagan, of which they are a part. file download hecocam.pdf Brian Friel: Collected Plays - Volume 2 // This second collection of Brian Friel's work contains: The Freedom of the City (1973) Volunteers (1975) Living Quarters (1977) Aristocrats (1979) (March) Faith Healer (1979 // Drama // The Freedom of the City; Volunteers; Living Quarters; Aristocrats; Faith Healer; Translations // Jul 7, 2016 // ISBN:9780571331857 // Brian Friel // 123 pages Dancing at Lughnasa download English drama // The Freedom of the City // "Set in Londonderry in 1970, this gripping drama is by the acclaimed author of Faith Healer and Translations, explores the ongoing Irish "troubles" that plague the country to // 1974 // A Play in Two Acts // Brian Friel // 82 pages // ISBN:0573609152 Dancing English drama // Living Quarters // Brian Friel // 91 pages // ISBN:0573619107 // Jan 1, 1978 Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler // 2009 // Drama // In a New Version // 80 pages // THE STORY: Hedda Gabler returns, dissatisfied, from a long honeymoon.
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Contents Part One I.0. Introduction ................................................................................................................... 1 I.1. Research Project ............................................................................................................ 1 I.2. Waiting for a Connection ............................................................................................ 16 I.3. Contemporary Irish Playwrights: Descendants of the Irish Literary Revival .............. 29 I.4. Brian Friel: Ireland’s Most Successful Contemporary Playwright .............................. 39 I.5. Making History: A Chronology of Brian Friel’s Private and Public Stages in Life .... 45 I.6. State of Research ......................................................................................................... 49 Part Two II.0 Identity Theories ......................................................................................................... 57 II.1. Werner Weidenfeld: Knowledge of Orientation and Identity Construction ................ 57 II.2. Benedict Anderson: The Nation as Imagined Community .......................................... 59 II.3. Adrian Hastings: Language, History, and National Identity ........................................ 62 II.4. Montserrat Guibernau: Globalisation and National Identity ........................................ 65 Part Three III.0 Ireland’s Quest for Identity ......................................................................................... 71 III.1. Ireland’s Postcolonial
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BIbLIOGRAPHY FEATURED DRAMATISTS MARINA CARR Plays One, Introduced by the Author (London: Faber and Faber, 1999). Contains Low in the Dark, The Mai, Portia Coughlan, By the Bog of Cats…. Woman and Scarecrow (Oldcastle, County Meath: The Gallery Press, 2006). BRIAN FRIEL Plays One, with an Introduction by Seamus Deane (London: Faber and Faber, 1996). Contains Philadelphia, Here I Come!; The Freedom of the City; Living Quarters; Aristocrats; Faith Healer and Translations. Plays Two, with an Introduction by Christopher Murray (London: Faber and Faber, 1999). Contains Dancing at Lughnasa, Fathers and Sons, Making History, Wonderful Tennessee, Molly Sweeney. THOMAS KILROY Double Cross (London: Faber and Faber, 1986; Oldcastle, County Meath: The Gallery Press, 1994). Tea and Sex and Shakespeare (Oldcastle, County Meath: The Gallery Press, 1998). © The Author(s) 2018 237 G. Price, Oscar Wilde and Contemporary Irish Drama, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93345-0 238 BibliogRapHY The Death and Resurrection of Mr Roche (Oldcastle, County Meath: The Gallery Press, rev. edn 2002). The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde (Oldcastle, County Meath: The Gallery Press, 1997). FRANk McGUINNESS Plays One, Introduced by the Author (London: Faber and Faber, 1996). Contains The Factory Girls, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, Innocence, Carthaginians, Baglady. Plays Two, Introduced by the Author (London: Faber and Faber, 2002). Contains Mary and Lizzie, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, Dolly West’s Kitchen, The Bird Sanctuary. TOM MURPHY Plays: 2, with an Introduction by Fintan O’Toole (London: Methuen, 1993). Contains Conversations on a Homecoming, Bailegangaire, A Thief of a Christmas.
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