Forging a Usable Past: Brian Friel's Making History

• Published in: ELH Vol. 86; no. 4; pp. 1089 - 1123
• Main Author: Richtarik, Marilynn
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 01.12.2019
• Subjects: Ambiguity; Audiences; Biographies; British & Irish literature; Critics; Cultural factors; Drama; Dramatists; Exegesis & hermeneutics; Folklore; Friel, Brian; Heroism & heroes; Hume, David (1711-1776); Intersectionality; Irish literature; Literary characters; Literary criticism; Literary devices; Literary influences; Literary translation; Logic; Narrative techniques; Plot (Narrative); Politics; Rea, Stephen; Reception (Artistic works); Speculative fiction; Theater; Writers; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939); United Kingdom > UK; Northern Ireland; Ireland

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