This volume analyses the works of the great Irish playwright Brian Friel, studies the founding tension between individual and collective history — written, re-written and infinitely open to the games of memory and language…

W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) is known as one of the best poets of his time. He is less known, especially in France, for his numerous theatre plays…

Brian Friel, born in 1929 in Northern Ireland, is the author of several radio plays and a dozen theatre plays, given in Belfast, Dublin, London, New York. He is one of the most famous contemporary English-language dramatists…

The plays gathered here are the works of two famous northern Irish dramatists who experienced the ever-present Civil War that they stage with faith and talent. The spirit that enimates Boyd and Friel is the same, the places are different…

Collection of literary, occult and political essays, Explorations sheds an essential light on Yeats' work and particularly on his brand new conception of theatrical techniques…