Bibliography: Brian Friel

• "Self-Portrait." Aquarius (1972): [q.p.].

• "Plays Peasant and Unpeasant." Times Literary Supplement (17 March 1972): [q.p.].

• "Extracts from a Sporadic Diary." Carpenter, Andrew and Peter Fallon (eds.). The Writers. A Sense of Ireland, Dublin: O'Brian, 1980, 39-40.

• "Interview with Brian Friel." Guardian (18 October 1984): [q.p.].

• Friel, Brian, John Andrews, and Kevin Barry. "Translations and A Paper Landscape: Between Fiction and History". The Crane Bag 7 (1983): 118-124.

• Brian Friel in Conversation. Delaney, Paul (ed.), Ann Arbour: University of Michigan Press, 2000.

• Brian Friel: Essays, Diaries, Interviews 1964-1999. Murray, Christopher (ed.), London: Faber & Faber, 2000.

• The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, Seamus Deane (ed.). 3 vols., Derry: Field Day, 1991.

General

• Achilles, Jochen. "Brian Friel at Seventy in German Perspective." Anglistik 10 (2000): 125-128.

• Ahrens, Rüdiger. "National Myths and Stereotypes in Modern Irish Drama: Sean O'Casey, Brendan Behan, Brian Friel." Fu Jen Studies: Literature and Linguistics 21 (1988): 89-110.

• Andrews, Elmer. The Art of Brian Friel. Neither Reality Nor Dreams. London: MacMillan, 1995.

• Bauch, Jonathan and Robert C. Evans. "The Plays of Brian Friel: Plot Summaries and Synopses of Recent Criticism." Harp, Richard and Robert C. Evans (eds.). A Companion to Brian Friel, West Cornwall, CT : Locust Hill, 2002, 163-251.

• Binnie, E. "Brecht and Friel: Some Irish Parallels." Modern Drama 31 (1988): 365-370.

• Blake, Ann. "Brian Friel and the Irish Theatre." Australasian Drama Studies 10 (1987): 107-117.

• Boltwood, Scott. "Brian Friel: Staging the Struggle With Nationalism." Irish Studies Review 32 (2002): 303-318.

• Bort, Eberhard, ed. "Standing in their shifts itself..": Irish Drama from Farquhar to Friel. Bremen: European Society for Irish Studies, 1993.

• Bort, Eberhard. "'Without the Help of a Master': Brian Friel's Re-Vision of Irish History." "Standing in their shifts itself..": Irish Drama from Farquhar to Friel. Ed. E. Bort. Bremen: European Society for Irish Studies, 1993. 295-318.

• Bordinat, Philip. "Tragedy through Comedy in Plays by Brendan Behan and Brian Friel." West Virginia University Philological Papers 29 (1983): 84-91.

• Burke, Patrick. "'Them Class of People's a Very Poor Judge of Character': Friel and the South." Irish University Review 29 (1999): 42-47.

• Carlson, Marvin. "The Mother Tongue and the Other Tongue: The American Challenge in Recent Drama." Global Challenges and Regional Responses in Contemporary Drama in English. Contemporary Drama in English 10. Ed. Jochen Achilles, Ina Bergmann and Birgit Däwes. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2002. 151-169.

• Corbett, Toby: Brian Friel: Decoding the Language of the Tribe, Dublin: Liffey Press, 2002.

• Connolly, Sean. "Translating History: Brian Friel and the Irish Past." in: Peacock, Alan J. (ed.). The Achievement of Brian Friel, Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1993, 149-63.

• Corcoran, Neil. "The Penalties of Retrospect: Continuities in Brian Friel." in: Peacock, Alan J. (ed.). The Achievement of Brian Friel, Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1993, 14-28.

• Cremin, Ann. "Brian Friel: L'Irlande au Coeur." Avant Scene Theatre, March 1, 785 (1986): 40-42.

• Cullingford, Eilzabeth Butler. "British Romans and Irish Carthaginians: Anticolonial Metaphor in Heaney, Friel and McGuinness." PMLA (1996): 222-236.

• Dantanus, Ulf: Brian Friel: The Growth of an Irish Dramatist, Gothenburg: Acta Universitas Gothoburgiensis, 1985 and London: Faber & Faber, 1988.

• Deane, Seamus. "Brian Friel: The Name of the Game." in: Peacock, Alan J. (ed.). The Achievement of Brian Friel, Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1993, 103-12.

• Dowling, Joe. "Staging Friel." in: Peacock, Alan J. (ed.). The Achievement of Brian Friel, Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1993, 178-89.

• Doyle, Maria Elena. "A Gesture to Indicate a Presence: Translation, Dialect and Field Day Theatre Company's Quest for an Irish Identity." Simon, Sherry and Paul St-Pierre (eds.). Changing the Terms: Translating in the Postcolonial Era, Ottawa, ON : U of Ottawa P, 2000, 167-186.

• Emmert, Anne. Die Präsentation von Vergangenheit in den Dramen Brian Friels. Trier: WVT, 1996.

• Evans, Robert C. and Deborah Cosier Hill. "Friel on Friel: Synopses of His Written and Spoken Ideas." Harp, Richard and Robert C. Evans (eds.). A Companion to Brian Friel, West Cornwall, CT : Locust Hill, 2002, 449-99.

• Farrelly, James P. and Mark C. Farrelly. "Ireland Facing the Void: The Emergence of Meaninglessness in the Works of Brian Friel." Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 24 (2002): 105-114.

• FitzGibbon, Gerald. "Historical Obsession in Recent Irish Drama." Lernout, Geert (ed.). The Crows Behind the Plough: History and Violence in Anglo-Irish Poetry and Drama Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1991, 41-59.

• FitzGibbon, Gerald. "Interpreting Between Privacies: Brian Friel and the Boundaries of Language." Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 5 (1999): 71-84.

• Flanagan, Kieran. "Brian Friel: A Sociological Appreciation of an Irish Playwright." Contemporary Review 266 (1995): 199-209.

• Gauthier, Tim. "Authenticity and Hybridity in the Post Colonial Moment: Brian Friel's Field Day Plays." Harp, Richard and Robert C. Evans (eds.). A Companion to Brian Friel, West Cornwall, CT : Locust Hill, 2002, 335-67.

• Gauthier, Tim. "Field Day Pamphlets (1983-1988): An Overview." Harp, Richard and Robert C. Evans (eds.). A Companion to Brian Friel, West Cornwall, CT : Locust Hill, 2002, 387-416.

• Gleitman, Claire. "Negotiating History, Negotiating Myth: Friel Among his Contemporaries." William Kerwin (ed.). Brian Friel. A Casebook, New York and London: Garland, 1997, 227-242.

• Grene, Nicholas. "Distancing Drama: Sean O'Casey to Brian Friel." in: Sekine, Masaru (ed.). Irish Writers and the Theatre, Gerrards Cross: Smythe, 1986, 47-70.

• Grene, Nicholas. "Friel and Transparency." Irish University Review 29 (1999): 136-144.

• Grene, Nicholas. "Truth and Indeterminacy in Brian Friel." in: Genet, Jacqueline and Elisabeth Hellegouarc'h (eds.). Studies on the Contemporary Irish Theatre [Actes du Colloque de Caen 11-12 Janvier 1991], Caen : PU de Caen, 1991, 9-20.

• Harp, Richard and Robert C. Evans (eds.). A Companion to Brian Friel, West Cornwall, CT : Locust Hill, 2002.

• Heaney, Seamus. "For Liberation: Brian Friel and the Use of Memory." in: Peacock, Alan J. (ed.). The Achievement of Brian Friel, Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1993, 229-40.

• Hildebidle, John. "Simultaneously Actual and Illusory: Memory in Some Plays by Brian Friel." Harp, Richard and Robert C. Evans (eds.). A Companion to Brian Friel, West Cornwall, CT : Locust Hill, 2002, 3-13.

• Hohenleiter, Kathleen. "'Something Is Being Defined All Right': Anthology Politics in Friel's Field Day Plays." Harp, Richard and Robert C. Evans (eds.). A Companion to Brian Friel, West Cornwall, CT : Locust Hill, 2002, 369-85.

• Jones, Nesta: Brian Friel: Philadelphia Here I Come!, Translations, Making History, Dancing at Lughnasa, London: Faber & Faber, 2000.

• Kearney, Richard. "Friel and the Politics of Language Play." Massachusetts Review 28 (1987): 510-515.

• Kearney, Richard. "Language Play: Brian Friel and Ireland's Verbal Theatre." Studies 72(285) 1983: 20-56.

• Kerwin, William (ed.). Brian Friel: A Casebook, New York and London: Garland, 1997.

• Klein, Bernhard. "The Poetry and Politics of Memory: Staging History in Contemporary Irish Drama (Friel, Parker, McGuinness)." Lucko, Peter and Jürgen Schläger (eds.). Anglistentag 2000 (Berlin): Trier: WVT, 2001, 421-433.

• Kosok, Heinz. "Das Dramenwerk Brian Friels." my Theater-Korrespondenz 49.12 (Dec. 1998): 33-36.

• Kosok, Heinz. "Words versus Action in the Plays of Brian Friel." Kosok, Heinz (ed.). Plays and Playwrights from Ireland in International Perspective, Trier: WVT, 1995.

• Kurdi, Maria (ed.). "Special Issue on Contemporary Irish Literature in Honour of Brian Friel at 70." Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 5 (1999).

• Lanters, José. "Brian Friel's Uncertainty Principle." Irish University Review 29 (1999): 162-175.

• Leary, Daniel. "The Romanticism of Brian Friel." in: Brophy, James D. and Raymond J. Porter (eds.). Contemporary Irish Writing, Boston : Twayne, 1983, 127-141.

• Lee, Josephine, "Linguistic Imperialism, the Early Abbey Theatre, and the Translations of Brian Friel." J. Ellen Gainor (ed.). Imperialism and Theatre: Essays on World Theatre, Drama and Performance, London: Routledge, 1995, 164-181.

• Lernout, Geert (ed.). "The Crows Behind the Plough: History and Violence in Anglo-Irish Poetry and Drama, Rodopi: Amsterdam, 1991.

• Levin, Milton. "Brian Friel: An Introduction." Eire Ireland 7 (1972): 132-36.

• Lojek, Helen. "Brian Friel's Gentle Island of Lamentation." Irish University Review 29 (1999): 48-59.

• Lojek, Helen. "Stage Irish-Americans in the Plays of Brian Friel." Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 17 (1991): 78-85.

• McGrath, Francis Charles. "Brian Friel and the Politics of the Anglo-Irish Language." Colby Quarterly 26 (1990): 241-248.

• McGrath, Francis Charles: Brian Friel's (Post) Colonial Drama: Language, Illusion and Politics, Syracuse, NY: Syracuse UP, 1999.

• McGrath, Francis Charles. "Language, Myth, and History in the Later Plays of Brian Friel." Contemporary-Literature 30 (1989): 534-545.

• McVeagh, John. "'A Kind of Comhar:' Charles Macklin and Brian Friel." in: Peacock, Alan J. (ed.). The Achievement of Brian Friel, Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1993, 215-28.

• Maxwell, Desmond. "'Figures in a Peepshow': Friel and the Irish Dramatic Tradition." in: Peacock, Alan J. (ed.). The Achievement of Brian Friel, Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1993, 49-68.

• Murray, Christopher. "Friel and O'Casey Juxtaposed." Irish University Review 29 (1999): 16-29.

• Murray, Christopher: Twentieth-century Irish Drama: Mirror up to Nation, Manchester: Manchester UP, 1997.

• Niel, Ruth. "Brian Friel." Irische Dramatiker der Gegenwart. Ed. Jochen Achilles and Rüdiger Imhof. Darmstadt: Wiss. Buchgesellschaft, 1996. 38-55.

• Neil, Ruth. "Disability as Motif and Meaning in Friel's Drama." Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 5 (1999): 143-59.

• Niel, Ruth. "Non-Realistic Techniques in the Plays of Brian Friel: The Debt to International Drama." in: Zach, Wolfgang and Heinz Kosok (eds.). Literary Interrelations: Ireland, England and the World, I: Reception and Translation; II: Comparison and Impact; III: National Images and Stereotypes. Tübingen: Narr, 1987, 349-359.

• O'Brian, George: Brian Friel, Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1989.

• O'Brian, George: Brian Friel: A Reference Guide, 1962-1992, New York: G. K. Hall & Co., 1995.

• O'Brian, George. "'Meet Brian Friel': The Irish Press Columns." Irish University Review 29 (1999): 30-41.

• O'Connor, Ulick: Brian Friel: Commitment and Crisis - The Writer and Northern Ireland, Dublin: Elo, 1989.

• O'Grady, Thomas B. "Insubstantial Fathers and Consubstantial Sons: A Note on Patrimony and Patricide in Friel and Leonard." Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 15 (1989): 71-79.

• Peacock, Alan (ed.). The Achievement of Brian Friel, Gerrads Cross: Colin Smyth, 1993.

• Peacock, Alan. "Translating the Past: Friel, Greece and Rome." in: Peacock, Alan J. (ed.). The Achievement of Brian Friel, Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1993, 113-33.

• Pelletier, Martine. "Telling Stories and Making History: Brian Friel and Field Day." Irish University Review 24 (1994): 186-197.

• Pelletier, Martine. Le théâtre de Brian Friel. Histoire et histoires. Villeneuve d'Asq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 1997.

• Pine, Richard. "Brian Friel and Contemporary Irish Drama." Colby Quarterly 27 (1991): 190-201.

• Pine, Richard. Brian Friel and Ireland's Drama. London: Routledge, 1990.

• Pine, Richard: The Diviner: The Art of Brian Friel, Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 1999.

• Pine, Richard. "Yeats, Friel and the Politics of Failure." Yeats 10 (1992): 154-71.

• Pratt, William. "Brian Friel's Imaginary Journey's to Nowhere." World Literature Today 73: 445-450.

• Richards, Shaun. "Brian Friel: Seizing the Moment of Flux." Irish University Review 30 (2000): 254-271.

• Richards, Shaun. "Placed Identities for Placeless Times: Brian Friel's Postcolonial Criticism." Irish University Review 27 (1997): 55-68.

• Richtarik, Marilynn: Acting Between the Lines: The Field Day Theatre Company and Irish Cultural Politics 1980-1984, Oxford: OUP, 1994.

• Rix, Walter R. "Beispiele gegenwärtiger anglo-irischer Dramatik: Brian Friel und John B. Keane." Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht 11 (1978): 19-37.

• Robbins, Joan E. "Conjuring the Life of the Spirit in the Plays of Brian Friel." Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 18 (1992): 75-87.

• Schneider, Ulrich. "Staging History in Contemporary Anglo-Irish Drama: Brian Friel and Frank MacGuinness." Lernout, Geert (ed.). The Crows Behind the Plough. History and Violence in Anglo-Irish Poetry and Drama, Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 1991, 79-98.

• Schrank, Bernice. "Politics and Language in the Plays of Sean O'Casey and Brian Friel." in: Birgit Bramsback and Martin Croghan (eds.). Anglo-Irish and Irish Literature: Aspects of Language and Culture, Uppsala: Uppsala University, 1988, 71-76.

• Tallone, Giovana. "Liminal Voices in Two Plays by Brian Friel." de Petris, Carla et al. (eds.). The Cracked Looking-Glass: Contributions to the Study of Irish Literature, Roma: Bulzoni, 2000.

• Throne, Marilyn. "The Disintegration of Authority: A Study of the Fathers in Five Plays of Brian Friel." Colby Library Quarterly 24 (1988): 162-172.

• Tillinghast, Richard. "Brian Friel: Transcending the Irish National Pastime." The New Criterion 10 (1991): 35-41.

• Verstraete, Ginete. "Brian Friel's Drama and the Limits of Language." Duytschaever, Joris and Geert Lernout (eds.). History and Violence in Anglo-Irish Literature, Amesterdam: Rodopi, 1988, 85-96.

• White, Harry. "Brian Friel and the Condition of Music." Irish University Review 29 (1999): 6-15.

• White, Harry. "Brian Friel, Thomas Murphy and Use of Music in Contemporary Irish Drama." Modern Drama 33 (1990): 553-562.

• Wiley, Catherine A. "Recreating Ballybeg: Two Translations by Brian Friel" Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 1 (1987): 51-61.

• Winkler, Elizabeth Hale. "Eejitin' About: Adolescence in Friel and Keane." Eire Ireland 16 (1981): 138-144.

• Worth, Katherine. "Translations of History: Story-Telling in Brian Friel's Theatre." Acheson, James (ed.). British and Irish Drama since 1960, Houndmills: Macmillan, 1993, 73-87.

Plays

• ARISTOCRATS
  • Raab, Michael. "Ballybeg ist überall: Brian Friel: Aristokraten." Die Deutsche Bühne 1 (1991): 38-40.

• THE COMMUNICATION CORD
  • Hutchinson, Glenn. "The Drama of Naming Ireland: Brian Friel's Translations and The Communication Cord." Names: A Journal of Onomastics 49 (2002): 121-134.

• DANCING AT LUGHNASA
  • Beck, Andrea. "Varianten von Brian Friels Dekonstruktivismus: Dancing at Lughnasa (1990) und Molly Sweeney (1994)." Anglistik 14 (2003): 105-117.

  • Cave, Richard Allen. "Questing for Ritual and Ceremony in a Godforsaken World: Dancing at Lughnasa and Wonderful Tennessee." Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 5 (1999): 109-26.

  • Clutterbuck, Caitriona. "Lughnasa after Easter: Treatments of Narrative Imperialism in Friel and Devlin." Irish University Review 29 (1999): 101-118.

  • Evans, Robert C. "Dancing at Lughnasa: Play, Script, and Film." Harp, Richard and Robert C. Evans (eds.). A Companion to Brian Friel, West Cornwall, CT : Locust Hill, 2002, 55-89.

  • Garratt, Robert F. "Beyond Field Day: Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa" The State of Play: Irish Theatre in the 'Nineties. Ed. Eberhard Bort. CDE Studies 1 Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 1996. 75-87.

  • Jones, Nesta: Brian Friel: Philadelphia Here I Come!, Translations, Making History, Dancing at Lughnasa, London: Faber & Faber, 2000.

  • Kramer, Prapassaree. "Dancing at Lughnasa: Unexcused Absence." Modern-Drama 43 (2000): 171-81.

  • Lee, Young Joo. "Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa Re-Reading Irishness and Universality through Women." Journal of Modern British and American Drama 14 (2001): 99-119.

  • Marlow, Stuart. "Hovering Between the Post-Colonial and the Pastoral: Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa." Anthropological Perspectives. Ed. Werner Huber and Martin Middeke. Contemporary Drama in English 5. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 1998. 83-94.

  • McMullan, Anna. "'In Touch With Some Otherness': Gender, Authority and the Body in Dancing at Lughnasa." Irish University Review 29 (1999): 90-100.

  • Pirnie, Karen W. "Dancing at the Movies: Critical Reception of the Film Dancing at Lughnasa." Harp, Richard and Robert C. Evans (eds.). A Companion to Brian Friel, West Cornwall, CT : Locust Hill, 2002, 91-106.

  • Thullier, David. "Traces .. The Significance of Brian Friel's Play Dancing at Lughnasa." Irish Roots 2 (1992): 18.

• FAITH HEALER
  • De Vinney, Karen. "Monologue as Dramatic Action in Brian Friel's Faith Healer and Molly Sweeney." Twentieth Century Literature 45: 110-119.

  • Hughes, George. "Ghosts and Ritual in Brian Friel's Faith Healer." Irish University Review 24 (1994): 175-185.

  • Kiberd, Declan. "Brain Friel's Faith Healer." Sekine, Masaru (ed.). Irish Writers and Society at Large, Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1985, 106-121.

  • Lanters, José. "Gender and Identity in Brian Friel's Faith Healer and Thomas Murphy's The Gigli Concert." Irish University Review 20 (1990): 282-298.

  • Lee, Haiyoung. "Brian Friel's Faith Healer: An Obsession with Fiction." Journal of Modern British and American Drama 15 (2002): 161-182.

  • McGuinness, Frank. "Faith Healer: All the Dead Voices." Irish University Review 29 (1999): 60-63.

  • Thorne, Marilyn. "Brian Friel's Faith Healer: Portrait of a Shaman." Journal of Irish Lterature 16 (1987): [q.p.].

• THE FREEDOM OF THE CITY
  • Birker, K. "The Relationship between Stage and the Audience in Brian Friel's The Freedom of the City." Harmon, Maurice (ed.). The Irish Writer and the City, Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1984, [q.p.].

  • Csicsila, Joseph. "'Isn't It the Stupidest Thing You Ever Heard?': The Everyday Human Struggle in Brian Friel's The Freedom of the City." Harp, Richard and Robert C. Evans (eds.). A Companion to Brian Friel, West Cornwall, CT : Locust Hill, 2002, 15-22.

  • Fujiki, Kazukuo. "On The Freedom of the City as an Open Tribunal." Studies in Foreign Language and Literature 22 (1998): 112-124.

  • Hiromoto, Katuya. "Memory, History and Brian Friel's The Freedom of the City." Bulletin of Tsuda Women's College 31: 137-154.

  • Parker, Michael. "Forms of Redress: Structure and Characterization in Brian Friel's The Freedom of the City." Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 5 (1999): 47-70.

  • Schrank, Bernice. "Politics, Language, Metatheatre: Friel's The Freedom of the City and the Formation of an Engaged Audience." Theatre Stuff: Critical Essays on Contemporary Irish Theatre. Ed. Eamonn Jordan. Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2000, 122-144.

• GIVE ME YOUR ANSWER, DO!
  • Pine, Richard. "Love: Brian Friel's Give Me Your Answer, Do!." Irish University Review 29 (1999): 176-188.

  • Bertha, Csilla and Donald E. Morse. "Singing of Human Unsuccess: The Artist in Brian Friel's Give Me Your Answer, Do!." Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 5 (1999): 127-41.

• THE LOVES OF CASS MCGUIRE
  • Follins, Ron and Nina Rollins. "The Loves of Cass McGuire: Friel's Wagnarian Music Drama." Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 16 (1990): 24-32.

• LIVING QUARTERS
  • Fujiki, Kazukuo. "Enkindled Memories in Living Quarters (by Brian Friel)." Studies in Foreign Languages and Literature [Bulletin of Notre Dame Seishin University] 1999: 136-144.

  • Lloyd, Michael. "Brian Friel's Greek Tragedy: Narrative, Drama, and Fate in Living Quarters." Irish University Review 30 (2000): 244-253.

  • O'Hanlon, Redmod. "Brian Friel's Dialogue with Euripides: Living Quarters." Theatre Stuff: Critical Essays on Contemporary Irish Theatre. Ed. Eamonn Jordan. Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2000, 107-121.

• MAKING HISTORY
  • Dantanus, Ulf. "O'Neill's Last Tape: Self, Failure and Freedom in Friel and Beckett." Harp, Richard and Robert C. Evans (eds.). A Companion to Brian Friel, West Cornwall, CT : Locust Hill, 2002, 107-32.

  • Droisen, Karen. "Making History: Teaching Brian Friel with the World Wide Web." Harp, Richard and Robert C. Evans (eds.). A Companion to Brian Friel, West Cornwall, CT : Locust Hill, 2002, 419-45.

  • Fogarty, Anne. "The Romance of History: Renegotiating the Past in Thomas Kilroy's The O'Neill and Brian Friel's Making History." Irish University Review 32 (2002): 18-32.

  • Fujiki, Kazukuo. "The Conflict of Hugh O'Neill in Making History by Brian Friel." Kiyo 36 (2002): 94-105. [article in Japanese]

  • Harp, Richard. "Manus and Oedipus the King." Harp, Richard and Robert C. Evans (eds.). A Companion to Brian Friel, West Cornwall, CT : Locust Hill, 2002, 23-30.

  • Huber, Werner. "Irish vs. English: Brian Friel's Making History." Reitz, Bernhard and Hubert Zapf (eds.). British Drama in the 1980s:New Perspectives, Heidelberg: Winter, 1990 [anglistik & englischunterricht 41], 165-175.

  • Jones, Nesta: Brian Friel: Philadelphia Here I Come!, Translations, Making History, Dancing at Lughnasa, London: Faber & Faber, 2000.

  • Murray, Christopher. "Brian Friel's Making History and the Problem of Historical Accuracy." Lernout, Geert (ed.). The Crows Behind the Plogh: History and Violence in Anglo-Irish Poetry and Drama, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1991, 62-77.

  • Sloan, Barry. "'The Overall Thing': Brian Friel's Making History." Irish Studies Review 8 (1994): 12-16.

• MOLLY SWEENEY
  • Beck, Andrea. "Varianten von Brian Friels Dekonstruktivismus: Dancing at Lughnasa (1990) und Molly Sweeney (1994)." Anglistik 14 (2003): 105-117.

  • De Vinney, Karen. "Monologue as Dramatic Action in Brian Friel's Faith Healer and Molly Sweeney." Twentieth Century Literature 45: 110-119.

  • Kerrigan, John C. "Swimming in Words: Molly Sweeney's Dramatic Form." Harp, Richard and Robert C. Evans (eds.). A Companion to Brian Friel, West Cornwall, CT : Locust Hill, 2002, 151-61.

  • Kosok, Heinz. "Das Dramenwerk Brian Friels." Brian Friel, Molly Sweeney - Leben ein Tanz - Zwischen allen Sprachen - Antworte mir! Ed. Birgit Pargner. München: Lauke Verlag, 1999. 11-41.

  • Maloney, Karen M. "Molly Astray: Revisioning Ireland in Brian Friel's Molly Sweeney." Twentieth Century Literature 46 (2000): 285-310.

  • Murray, Christopher. "Brian Friel's Molly Sweeney and it's Sources: A Postmodern Case Study." Etudes Irlandaises 23 (1999): 81-100.

  • Silverstein, Marc. "'With Greedy, Ravenous Eyes': Viewpoint as Vanishing Point in Molly Sweeney." Essays in Theatre/Etudes Théâtrales 18 (2002): 37-52.

  • Temple, Julia. "The Gift of Sight in Molly Sweeney." Harp, Richard and Robert C. Evans (eds.). A Companion to Brian Friel, West Cornwall, CT : Locust Hill, 2002, 133-49.

• PHILADELPHIA HERE I COME!
  • Achilles, Jochen. "Brian Friel: Philadelphia Here I Come!." Kleinhans, M. and Klaus Stierstorfer (eds.). Lektüren für das 21. Jahrhundert: Schlüsseltexte europäischer Literatur - England, Frankreich, Irland, Italien, Potugal, Russland, Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, 2002.

  • Jones, Nesta: Brian Friel: Philadelphia Here I Come!, Translations, Making History, Dancing at Lughnasa, London: Faber & Faber, 2000.

  • Küsgen, Reinhardt. "Brian Friel: Philadelphia, Here I Come." Oppel, Horst (ed.). Das englische Drama der Gegenwart, Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 1976, 95-106.

  • Randaccio, Monica. "The 'Both/And' Thought in Contemporary Irish Drama: New Dramatic Techniques and Political Transition in Brian Friel's Philadelphia Here I Come! and Thomas Murphy's A Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer's Assistant." O'Neill, Pamela and Jonathan Wooding (eds.). Literature and Politics in the Celtic World, Sydney: U of Sydney P, 2000.

• TRANSLATIONS
  • Abe, Kazuko. "Friel's Dramaturgy in Translations." Research Bulletin of the Fukuoka Institute of Technology 31 (1998): 123-128.

  • Andrews, J. H. "Notes for a Future Edition of Brian Friel's Translations." Irish Review 13 (1992/93): 93-106.

  • Arkins, Brian. "The Role of Greek and Latin in Friel's Translations." Colby Library Quarterly 27 (1991): 202-229.

  • Connolly, Sean. "Dreaming History: Brian Friel's Translations." Theatre Ireland 13 (1987): 42-44.

  • Hutchinson, Glenn. "The Drama of Naming Ireland: Brian Friel's Translations and The Communication Cord." Names: A Journal of Onomastics 49 (2002): 121-134.

  • Jones, Nesta: Brian Friel: Philadelphia Here I Come!, Translations, Making History, Dancing at Lughnasa, London: Faber & Faber, 2000.

  • Kim, Yungduk. "Colonial Mapping and Postcolonial Counter-Discourse: The Politics of Cultural Translation in Friel's Translations." Journal of Modern British and American Drama 14 (2001): 5-29.

  • Malenich, John "Lost in the Translation: The Relationship between Language and Cultural Identity in Brian Friel's Translations." Notes on Modern Irish Literature 13 (2001): 68-77.

  • McCarthy, Anne and María Dolores Gómez-Penas. "Translating Translations: The Importance of Conversational Analysis in this Play." Livius 13: 81-90.

  • Meissner, Colin. "Words between Worlds: The Irish language, the English Army and the Violence of Translation in Brian Friel's Translations." Colby Library Quarterly 28 (1992): 164-72.

  • Mesterhazi, Marton. "The Hungarian Translator's View of Brian Friel's Translations and the Problems in Translating It into Hungarian." Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 5 (1999): 97-107.

  • Murray, Christopher. "Palimpsest: Two Languages as One in Brian Friel's Translations." Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 5 (1999): 85-96.

  • O'Leary, Timothy. "Putting Ireland on the Postcolonial Map: Brian Friel's Translations." New Literatures Review 37 (2000): 27-41.

  • Pilkington, Lionel. "Language and Politics in Brian Friel's Translations." Irish University Review 20 (1990): 282-298.

  • Roche, Anthony. "A Bit Off the Map: Brian Friel's Translations and Shakespeare's Henry IV." Zach, Wolfgang and Heinz Kosok (eds.). Literary Interrelations. Vol. 2: Comparison and Impact, Tübingen: Narr, 1987, 249-360.

  • Zach, Wolfgang. "Brian Friel's Translations: National and Universal Dimensions." Wall, Richard (ed.). Medieval and Modern Ireland, Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1988, 74-90.

• VOLUNTEERS
  • Neil, Ruth. "Digging Into History. A Reading of Brian Friel's Volunteers and Seamus Heaney's 'Viking Ireland, Tribal Pieces'." Irish University Review 16 (1986): [q.p.].

  • Imhof, Rüdiger. "Re-Writing History: A Fresh Look at Brian Friel's Volunteers." Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 17 (1991): [q.p.].

• WONDERFUL TENNESSEE
  • Andrews, Elmer. "'The Necessity for Paganism': Brian Friel's Wonderful Tennessee." Twentieth-Century Theatre and Drama in English: Festschrift for Heinz Kosok on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday. Ed. Jürgen Kamm. Trier: WVT, 1999. 513-525.

  • Bertha, Csilla. "Six Characters in Search of a Faith: The Mystic and the Mundane in Wonderful Tennessee." Irish University Review 29 (1999): 119-135.

  • Cave, Richard Allen. "Questing for Ritual and Ceremony in a Godforsaken World: Dancing at Lughnasa and Wonderful Tennessee." Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 5 (1999): 109-26.

  • Peacock, Alan and Kathleen Devine. "Other Dimensions: Myth, Ritual and Scrifice in Brian Friel's Wonderful Tennessee." Etudes Irlandaises 1997, 85-100.

• ADAPTATIONS (Uncle Vanya, A Month in the Country)
  • Andrews, Elmer. "Brian Friel: Two Recent 'Translations': The London Vertigo and A Month in the Country." Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses 5 (1992): 35-45.

  • Fusco, Cassandra. "Uncle Vanya (1887-1998): 'A Contemporary Plea for Mercy and Grace'." Etudes Irlandaises 26 (2002): 33-54.

  • Jones, Richard. "Dramatic Interpretation as Theatrical Translation: Friel's Adaptation of Chekhov." Harp, Richard and Robert C. Evans (eds.). A Companion to Brian Friel, West Cornwall, CT : Locust Hill, 2002, 31-53.

  • Kurdi, Mária. "Rewriting the Reread: Brian Friel's Version of Turgenev's A Month in the Country." Irish University Review 25 (1995): 284-297.

  • Tracy, Robert. "The Russian Connection: Friel and Chekov." Irish University Review 29 (1999): 64-77.

Links:

• Brian Friel at Emory
  http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/Friel.html
• Brian Friel at Bedford/St. Martin's: Links and biography
  http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/drama/friel.htm
• Brian Friel at Umeå universitet (Sweden)
  http://www.eng.umu.se/lughnasa/brian.htm

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