Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-249) and index.
Introduction / William Kerwin -- 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