{"product_id":"brian-friel-plays-1-by-brian-friel","title":"'Brian Friel: Plays 1' by Brian Friel","description":"\u003ch4 dir=\"auto\"\u003eThis first volume of Brian Friel’s collected plays gathers six works written between the 1960s and early 1980s.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eIt includes \u003cem\u003ePhiladelphia, Here I Come!\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Freedom of the City\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLiving Quarters\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAristocrats\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFaith Healer\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eTranslations, \u003c\/em\u003eand together they show the territory Friel kept worrying at from different angles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eFriel loves the way people become divided against themselves. In \u003cem\u003ePhiladelphia, Here I Come!\u003c\/em\u003e the protagonist is literally split into a public and private self; \u003cem\u003eFaith Healer\u003c\/em\u003e builds itself from incompatible accounts of the same life; \u003cem\u003eTranslations\u003c\/em\u003e turns language itself into a struggle over memory, place and power. The volume is introduced by Seamus Deane, placing the plays within modern Irish literary and political history. It makes for a good single-volume entry point into Friel because the six plays span both the intimate and overtly political ends of his work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFaber and Faber, London, 1996. \u003cem\u003eContemporary Classics\u003c\/em\u003e edition. Paperback. Light shelf wear, faint creasing and minor handling marks to covers; corners lightly bumped. Internally clean and unmarked; binding firm. Very good condition. This 1996 Faber edition is ISBN 9780571177677.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46395226325075,"sku":null,"price":16.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/womenintranslation-2026-09-21T102422.076.png?v=1789950274","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/brian-friel-plays-1-by-brian-friel","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}