"Swapping Stories About Apollo and Cuchulainn": Brian Friel and the De-Gaelicizing of Ireland

Modern Drama ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 573-583 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Boltwood
Keyword(s):  
Brian Friel

‘A disoriented vision of … fact’: Brian Friel, Francis Bacon, and Faith Healer

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 319-336
Author(s):  
Zosia Kuczyńska
Keyword(s):  
Creative Process ◽  
Francis Bacon ◽  
Major Influence ◽  
Artistic Practice ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
Faith Healer ◽  
Brian Friel ◽  
History Of ◽  
Composition Process

The Brian Friel Papers at the NLI reveal a long and relatively unexplored history of major and minor influences on Friel's plays. As the archive attests, these influences manifest themselves in ways that range from the superficial to the deeply structural. In this article, I draw on original archival research into the composition process of Friel's genre-defining play Faith Healer (1979) to bring to light a model of influence that operates at the level of artistic practice. Specifically, I examine the extent to which Friel's officially unacknowledged encounter with a book of interviews with painter Francis Bacon influenced the play in terms of character, language, and form. I suggest that Bacon's creative process – incorporating his ideas on the role of the artist, the workings of chance, and the extent to which art does violence to fact – may have had a major influence on both the play's development and on Friel's development as an artist.

Brian Friel, dramaturge postmoderne

1996 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacques Tranier
Keyword(s):  
Brian Friel

Brian Friel

1992 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 363
Author(s):  
W. A. Johnsen ◽  
George O'Brien
Keyword(s):  
Brian Friel

Brian Friel and the Scene of Writing: ReadingGive Me Your Answer, Do!

Modern Drama ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 470-481
Author(s):  
Maria Germanou
Keyword(s):  
Brian Friel

Brian Friel in Conversation

2000 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 826
Author(s):  
William Pratt ◽  
Paul Delaney
Keyword(s):  
Brian Friel

Aristocrats by Brian Friel, and: The Price by Arthur Miller

2015 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 333-336
Author(s):  
Jay Malarcher
Keyword(s):  
Arthur Miller ◽  
Brian Friel

scholarly journals Fantasmas no palco: Dancing at Lughnasa e o Teatro de Memória de Friel

2018 ◽  
pp. 135
Author(s):  
Maria Isabel Rios de Carvalho Viana
Keyword(s):  
Tennessee Williams ◽  
Brian Friel ◽  
Glass Menagerie ◽  
The Glass Menagerie

É característica marcante da obra do dramaturgo irlandês Brian Friel a representação da memória no palco. Dancing at Lughnasa é uma de suas peças classificada pelos críticos como uma “peça de memória” por apresentar, assim como a peça The Glass Menagerie de Tennessee Williams, um narrador-personagem que narra eventos de seu passado. Porém, a relação dessa peça de Friel com a memória vai muito além da mera temática e passa a ser o procedimento e a forma do dramaturgo de fazer teatro à memória do próprio teatro, recuperando suas origens nos rituais e na tragédia e relendo elementos marcantes da fundação do Teatro Literário Irlandês. Partindo da ideia do “fantasmático” no teatro desenvolvida por Carlson, o objetivo desse artigo é detectar alguns dos “fantasmas” presentes no texto de Friel, mostrando o caráter metateatral da peça e de que forma Friel faz do seu teatro um Teatro de Memória.

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