Faith Healer

作者

  • Robert Tracy University of California

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

关键词:

Brian Friel, Faith Healer, Theatricality, Antitheatricality.

摘要

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.

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    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.

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已出版

2006-06-17

期次

卷 8 (2006): ABEI Journal 8

栏目

Drama

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