The Plays of Brian Friel

Abstract

Brian Friel is one of the most accomplished playwrights writing in English today. His work is developed around a central poetic vision which has found, and enhanced, a language of theatre to communicate difficult ideas. This language of drama works through wider poetic sensibilities we actually share with the playwright but which we have lost sight of. Brian Friel sharpens our perceptions and makes us able to understand our human condition, and the deepening ironies and contradictions of our age. This is his poetic vision.