Description
Is your enjoyment of Friel’s work hampered by a lack of Irish historical knowledge? Are you studying his plays and looking for help with interpretation? Do you teach Friel and need a reliable guide to the plays?A Faber Critical Guide to Brian Friel’s major work gives all this and more: an introduction to the distinctive features of the playwright’s work the significance of the playwright in the context of modern theatre a detailed analysis of each of the classic plays: language, structure, and character features of performance select bibliography.