Collected plays. Volume 2 / Brian Friel.
By: Friel, Brian [author]
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BookPublisher: Meath : London ; Gallery Boooks ; Faber & Faber, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 497 pages ; 21 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780571331840 (paperback).Subject(s): Ireland -- DramaDDC classification: 822.914 FRI | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Cork School of Music Library Lending | 822.914 FRI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 00197665 |
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| 822.914 FRI Brian Friel : plays 1 / | 822.914 FRI Philadelphia, here I come! / | 822.914 FRI Aristocrats : a play in three acts / | 822.914 FRI Collected plays. Volume 2 / | 822.914 FRI Collected plays. Volume 1 / | 822.914 FRI Collected plays. Volume 3 / | 822.914 GIL A colossal idea : an original farce / |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This second collection of Brian Friel's work contains:
The Freedom of the City (1973)
Volunteers (1975)
Living Quarters (1977)
Aristocrats (1979) (March)
Faith Healer (1979) (April)
Translations (1980)
The freedom of the city -- Volunteers --Living quarters -- Aristocrats -- Faith healer -- Translations.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Brian Friel was born Bernard Patrick Friel on January 9, 1929 in Killyclogher, Northern Ireland. He graduated from St. Patrick's College. He spent a decade teaching mathematics in Londonderry after deciding that he did not want to become a priest.He gained confidence as a writer when his short stories began to be published in The New Yorker. He has published several volumes of short stories including A Saucer of Larks, The Gold in the Sea, and Give Me Your Answer, Do! However, he was better known for writing plays. His plays include Philadelphia, Here I Come!, The Freedom of the City, Faith Healer, Molly Sweeney, The Home Place, Translations, and Wonderful Tennessee. Aristocrats won Best Foreign Play Award from the New York Drama Critics Circle and Dancing at Lughnasa won a Tony Award for best play in 1992. He also translated several plays written by Anton Chekhov and Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev. He died on October 2, 2015 at the age of 86.
(Bowker Author Biography)