Table of Contents
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
