<b>Brian Friel: the master playwright</b><br>

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  • Martine Pelletier University of Tours

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https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2010n58p135

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Brian Friel has long been recognized as Ireland's leading playwright. His work for the theatre spans almost fifty years and his reputation has expanded well beyond Ireland. In January 2009 Friel turned eighty and only a few months before, his adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, opened at the Gate Theatre Dublin on 30th September 2008. This article will first provide a survey of Brian Friel's remarkable career, trying to assess his overall contribution to Irish theatre, before looking at his various adaptations to finally focus on Hedda Gabler, its place and relevance in the author's canon.

Biografia do Autor

Martine Pelletier, University of Tours

Martine Pelletier lectures in English and Irish studies at the University of Tours, France. She has published widely on Brian Friel, Field Day and on contemporary Irish and Northern Irish theatre. Among her recent contributions are articles in The Book in Ireland, edited by Fabienne Garcier, Jacqueline Genêt & Sylvie Mikowki, published by Cambridge Scholars Press in 2006 and in The Cambridge Companion to Brian Friel, edited by Anthony Roche (2007).

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2010-01-01

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