The Art of Brian Friel : Neither Reality Nor Dreams

This is a critical study of Friels entire oeuvre, relating Friels work to the problems of subjectivity, representation, history and the body, with a view to offering some placement of Friel in relation to both postmodernism and traditional humanism. Central to this study is Friels concept of translation, whereby he offers us the tension of shaping the new through a translation or reformulation of the old.