Modernity, Community, and Place in Brian Friel's Drama

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Modernity, Community, and Place in Brian Friel’s Drama Irish Studies James MacKillop, Series Editor Other titles in Irish Studies The Banshees: A Literary History of Irish American Women Writers Sally Barr Ebest Brian Friel’s (Post) Colonial Drama: Language, Illusion, and Politics F. C. McGrath Carmilla: A Critical Edition Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu; Kathleen Costello-Sullivan, ed. A Chastened Communion: Modern Irish Poetry and Catholicism Andrew J. Auge Collaborative Dubliners: Joyce in Dialogue Vicki Mahaffey, ed. Gender and Medicine in Ireland, 1700–1950 Margaret H. Preston and Margaret Ó hÓgartaigh, eds. Memory Ireland, 2 (of 4) Volumes Oona Frawley, ed. “Other People’s Diasporas”: Negotiating Race in Contemporary Irish and Irish American Culture Sinéad Moynihan The Second Coming of Paisley: Militant Fundamentalism and Ulster Politics Richard Lawrence Jordan Community, Drama Richard Rankin Russell S Y R ACU S E U N I V E R S IT Y PR E S S Copyright © 2013 by Syracuse University Press Syracuse, New York 13244-5290 All Rights Reserved First Edition 2013 13 14 15 16 17 18 6 5 4 3 2 1 Quotations from Northern Ireland Radio’s interviews with Brian Friel are reprinted courtesy of the BBCNI Community Archive. ∞ The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. For a listing of books published and distributed by Syracuse University Press, visit our website at www.SyracuseUniversityPress.syr.edu. ISBN: 978-0-8156-3331-0 (cloth) 978-0-8156-5234-2 (e-book) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Russell, Richard Rankin. Modernity, Community, and Place in Brian Friel’s Drama / Richard Rankin Russell. — First edition. pages cm.— (Irish Studies) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8156-3331-0 (cloth : alk. paper)—ISBN 978-0-8156-5234-2 (e-book) 1. Friel, Brian—Criticism and interpretation. 2. Communities in literature. 3. Place (Philosophy) in literature. 4. Postmodernism (Literature)—Ireland. I. Title. PR6056.R5Z88 2013 822'.914—dc23 2013040325 Manufactured in the United States of America This book is dedicated to my son, Connor Gray Russell, who teaches me daily his delight in words. A native of West Tennessee, Richard Rankin Russell is professor of English and 2012–13 Centennial Professor at Baylor University in Texas, where he directs the Beall Poetry Festival: www.baylor.edu/beall. He has served as Literature Representative for the American Conference of Irish Studies. His publications include an edited collection of essays on the playwright Martin McDonagh (Routledge, 2007) and two monographs: Bernard MacLaverty (Bucknell University Press, 2009) and Poetry and Peace: Michael Longley, Seamus Heaney, and Northern Ireland (University of Notre Dame Press, 2010). Poetry and Peace won both the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Book Prize and the South Central Modern Language Association Book Prize in 2011. He has two edited collections forthcoming: Peter Fallon: Poet, Publisher, Translator, Editor (Irish Academic Press, 2013), and Bernard MacLaverty: New Critical Readings (Bloomsbury, 2014). His latest monograph is Seamus Heaney’s Regions, forthcoming from University of Notre Dame Press in 2014. ...