Universal or provincial?: Early reception of Brian Friel's Philadelphia, Here I Come!

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  • Peter James Harris UNESP de São José do Rio Preto

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https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2010n58p21

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This article, part of a larger research work that resulted in a Professorship Thesis, presents a survey and evaluation of the early reception of one of Brian Friel's first plays: Philadelphia, Here I Come! (1964). The article also explores the question of emigration from Ireland in the 1950s and 1960s, considering British legislation on the matter, and comments on the eventual influence such issue, among other factors, may have had on criticism about the performance of the play at the time.

Biografia do Autor

Peter James Harris, UNESP de São José do Rio Preto

Peter James Harris is Assistant Professor of English Literature and English Culture at the São Paulo State University (UNESP), in São José do Rio Preto. Born in London he has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and a PhD in Irish Studies from the University of São Paulo (USP). He is the author of Sean O'Casey's Letters and Autobiographies: Reflections of a Radical Ambivalence  (Trier: WVT, 2004). He has also published articles on twentieth-century Irish playwrights and on Roger Casement's 1910 Amazon expedition. In 2006 he completed a post-doctorate in the Drama and Theatre Department of Royal Holloway University of London, where he was a Visiting Research Fellow studying the presence of Irish dramatists on the London stage in the period from Independence to the present day.

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2010-01-01

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