Faith Healer

Authors

  • Robert Tracy University of California

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v8i0.3720

Keywords:

Brian Friel, Faith Healer, Theatricality, Antitheatricality.

Abstract

This essay discusses the balance between theatricality and antitheatricality
in Faith Healer, by Brian Friel, and argues that the play draws inspiration from drama as ritual and from medieval and mystery plays.

Author Biography

  • Robert Tracy, University of California

    ROBERT TRACY is Professor Emeritus in English and Celtic Studies, at University of California, Berkeley. He was Visiting Professor at the University of Leeds, England (1965-66), Wellesley College, Massachusetts (1979) and Trinity College, Dublin, (1972 and 1995-96). He is author of many articles and editor of important publications such as In a Glass Darkly (Sheridan Le Fanu), 1993 and Rhapsody in Stephen’s Green (Flann O’Brien), 1994. Among his well-known books are Trollope’s Later Novels (1978), Stone (1981, 2nd edition 1991), a translation of Kamen’, 81 poems by the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938), and The Unappeasable Host: Studies in Irish Identities, 1998.

References

Beckett, Samuel. Collected Shorter Plays.New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1984.

Friel, Brian. Essays, Diaries, Interviews: 1964-1999. Ed. Christopher Murray. London: Faber, 1999.

____. Selected Plays. Introduced by Seamus Deane. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1984.

Roche, Anthony. Contemporary Irish Drama from Beckett to McGuinness. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995.

Yeats, W.B. Autobiography. New York: Collier, 1965.

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Published

17-06-2006

Issue

Vol. 8 (2006): ABEI Journal 8

Section

Drama

How to Cite

Tracy, R. (2006). Faith Healer. ABEI Journal, 8, 91-101. https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v8i0.3720