Universal or provincial?: Early reception of Brian Friel´s Philadelphia, Here I Come!

Ilha Do Desterro

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Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - UFSC Centro de Comunicação e Expressão - CCE Departamento de Pós-graduação em Língua Inglesa e Literatura Cor
Florianópolis / SC
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Início Publicação: 28/02/1979
Periodicidade: Semestral
Área de Estudo: Letras

Universal or provincial?: Early reception of Brian Friel´s Philadelphia, Here I Come!

Ano: 2010 | Volume: 0 | Número: 58
Autores: Peter James Harris
Autor Correspondente: Peter James Harris | [email protected]

Palavras-chave: irish theatre, brian friel, philadelphia here i come!, emigration, reception, britain

Resumos Cadastrados

Resumo Inglês:

This article, part of a larger research work that resulted in a Professorship
Thesis, presents a survey and evaluation of the early reception of one of
Brian Friel’s first plays: Philadelphia, Here I Come! (1964). The article also
explores the question of emigration from Ireland in the 1950s and 1960s,
considering British legislation on the matter, and comments on the eventual
influence such issue, among other factors, may have had on criticism
about the performance of the play at the time.