Scott Boltwood, Brian Friel, Ireland, and the North.(Book review)

Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies | September 22, 2008| | Copyright

Scott Boltwood, Brian Friel, Ireland, and the North. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xiv + 257 pages. GBP 50.00; USD 95.00

Delightfully, the number of book-length studies on Brian Friel's work has increased once again. After seven monographs (or eight, if we count Richard Pine's first version that evolved into The Diviner), two collections of essays (which came to light too close to this book to be considered in it), and innumerable essays, Scott Boltwood, an American scholar sets out to explore this oeuvre from a political, social, and cultural angle, ...

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