The Diviner: The Art of Brien Friel.
Author: PINE, Richard.
Dublin: University College Dublin, 1999. Second Edition. xx, 409 pages. Paperback.
“Brian Friel is recognised today as one of the world’s most important dramatists, with plays like Dancing at Lughnasa, Faith Healer, Translations and Molly Sweeney winning acclaim worldwide. The first edition of this pioneering study (published in 1990) was a major contribution to Irish and international drama criticism. In this completely rewritten edition, in which he has had the full co-operation of the playwright, Richard Pine has assessed Brian Friel’s most recent plays and has extended his original treatment of Friel as a post-colonial writer.
Seamus Heaney said of the first edition: ‘This book will contribute greatly to an understanding of how Brian Friel’s plays transmit meaning within the acoustic of the Irish cultural and political scene. Pine’s strength as a commentator comes from his meditative, associative habit of mind: his readings constantly deepen the sense of Friel’s complexity and modernity.’”
ISBN: 1900621231
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