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The Theatre of Brian Friel: Tradition and Modernity de Prof. Christopher Murray

The Theatre of Brian Friel: Tradition and Modernity: Critical Companions

Autor Prof. Christopher Murray Contribuţii de Csilla Bertha, David Krause, Professor Shaun Richards
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 apr 2014
Brian Friel is Ireland's foremost living playwright, whose work spans fifty years and has won numerous awards, including three Tonys and a Lifetime Achievement Arts Award. Author of twenty-five plays, and whose work is studied at GCSE and A level (UK), and the Leaving Certificate (Ire), besides at undergraduate level, he is regarded as a classic in contemporary drama studies. Christopher Murray's Critical Companion is the definitive guide to Friel's work, offering both a detailed study of individual plays and an exploration of Friel's dual commitment to tradition and modernity across his oeuvre.Beginning with Friel's 1964 work Philadelphia, Here I Come!, Christopher Murray follows a broadly chronological route through the principal plays, including Aristocrats, Faith Healer, Translations, Dancing at Lughnasa, Molly Sweeney and The Home Place. Along the way it considers themes of exile, politics, fathers and sons, belief and ritual, history, memory, gender inequality, and loss, all set against the dialectic of tradition and modernity. It is supplemented by essays from Shaun Richards, David Krause and Csilla Bertha providing varying critical perspectives on the playwright's work.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781408154496
ISBN-10: 1408154498
Pagini: 312
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Methuen Drama
Seria Critical Companions

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Written by a leading expert on contemporary Irish Drama, with a long and distinguished career at University College, Dublin, and many publications in the field.

Notă biografică

Christopher Murray is Emeritus Professor of English and Drama at University College, Dublin, Ireland, where he was the founder member and first director of the UCD Drama Centre offering MA and PhD in Modern Drama Studies. His many publications include Twentieth-Century Irish Drama: Mirror up to Nation. He is chair of the board of directors of the Gaiety School of Acting, Dublin.

Cuprins

Acknowledgements1. Situating Friel 2. Coming of Age: Philadelphia, Here I Come! 3. Formation of an Aesthetic: The Loves of Cass McGuire and Crystal and Fox 4. Speaking Out: The Freedom of the City and Volunteers 5. Uncertainty, Memory, Tragedy: Living Quarters and Faith Healer 6. A Kind of Trilogy: Making History, Translations and The Home Place 7. The Chekhov Factor and Gender Issues: Aristocrats, Dancing at Lughnasa and Molly Sweeney 8. 'The Vodka-and-Tonic Society': Wonderful Tennessee and Give Me Your Answer, Do! 9. Critical Perspectives: Shaun Richards, 'Placed Identities for Placeless Times: Brian Friel and Post-Colonial Criticism'; David Krause, 'The Failed Words of Brian Friel'; Csilla Bertha, 'Art as a lieu de memoire in Brian Friel's The Home Place'10. Performances11. General ConclusionNotes Selected bibliography Index

Recenzii

What sets this monograph apart from others devoted to this key playwright are its many illuminating, nuanced, surprising 'framings' of Friel's plays by other plays from the Irish, English, and European stage. Murray's most provocative insights arise from his imaginative juxtapositions, for example, of Philadelphia, Here I Come! and Miller's Death of a Salesman . Murray's fluency with theater history beyond the twentieth-century Irish stage gives his survey its fl[a]vor and edge . I would include [The Theatre of Brian Friel] . among the indispensable recent full-length appraisals of this seminal figure of the Irish stag.
Murray's strength is in his citation of those individual performances of the plays which he has witnessed over the years, and it is rarer to find the opening night of a Friel play which he did not attend than one he did.
Creative, fertile and fresh. . Murray's kind of criticism is best described as classical, representing an exemplary standard within a basically traditional and long-established form or style. As a generalist analysis of Friel's plays and their impact on contemporary theatre, this is the best, most extensive and most up-to-date study so far.
There are new insights here for those who know Friel's plays well but a sound introduction for others who may be coming to him for the first time. By its combination of a chronological and thematic approach, it contrives to avoid a pedestrian plod through the life and works, its master argument capacious enough to include the many different ways Friel has adapted tradition to the conditions of modernity. The Friel that emerges from Murray's book is a playwright of ideas, a literary playwright for whom language is all important, whose career has been dedicated to the development of an "aesthetic of modern tragedy".
As Murray ably demonstrates, there is a great deal left to be said about this most elusive - and allusive - of playwrights ... [His] book-length critique is supplemented and enriched by a final section, 'Critical Perspectives', in which other leading scholars of Irish theatre ... offer alternative readings of Friel's drama.

Descriere

A Critical Companion to the theatre of Ireland's foremost living playwright, whose work spans fifty years and has won numerous awards, including three Tonys and a Lifetime Achievement Arts Award. Christopher Murray's study is the definitive guide to Brian Friel's work  for students and theatre-goers alike.