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Introduction, William Kerwin * Chronology * Brian Friel and the Irish Art of Lying, F.C. McGrath * As If Language No Longer Existed: Non-Verbal Theatricality in the Plays of Friel, Patrick Burke * Recording Tremors: Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa and the Uses of Tradition, Christopher Murray * The Engendered Space: Performing Friel's Women from Cass McGuire to Molly Sweeney, Claudia W. Harris : Language Play: Brian Friel and Ireland's Verbal Theatre, Richard Kearney * Brian Friel's Uses of Laughter, Kathleen Ferris * Homeless Words: Field Day and the Politics of Translation, W. B. Worthen * The Woman as Nation in Brian Friel's Translations, Lauren Onkey Volunteers: Codes of Power, Modes of Resistance, George O'Brien * Like Walking Through Madame Tussaud's: The Catholic Ascendancy and Place in Brian Friel's Aristocrats, Garland Kimmer * Brian Friel's Faith Healer, Declan Kiberd * Negotiating History, Negotiating Myth: Friel Among His Contemporaries, Claire Gleitman * Selected Bibliography * Contributors * Index

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