Brian Friel

Introduction William Kerwin * Chronology * Brian Friel and the Irish Art of Lying F.C. McGrath * As If Language No Longer Existed: Non-Verbal Theatricality in the Plays of Friel Patrick Burke * Recording Tremors: Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa and the Uses of Tradition Christopher Murray * The Engendered Space: Performing Friel's Women from Cass McGuire to Molly Sweeney Claudia W. Harris : Language Play: Brian Friel and Ireland's Verbal Theatre Richard Kearney * Brian Friel's Uses of Laughter Kathleen Ferris * Homeless Words: Field Day and the Politics of Translation W. B. Worthen * The Woman as Nation in Brian Friel's Translations Lauren Onkey Volunteers: Codes of Power Modes of Resistance George O'Brien * Like Walking Through Madame Tussaud's: The Catholic Ascendancy and Place in Brian Friel's Aristocrats Garland Kimmer * Brian Friel's Faith Healer Declan Kiberd * Negotiating History Negotiating Myth: Friel Among His Contemporaries Claire Gleitman * Selected Bibliography * Contributors * Index