I dagens verden har Brian Friel blitt et tema med stor relevans og interesse for et bredt spekter av mennesker. Enten på grunn av dens innvirkning på samfunnet, dens relevans i det profesjonelle feltet eller dens rolle i historien, har Brian Friel fanget oppmerksomheten til individer i alle aldre og bakgrunner. Ettersom tiden skrider frem, blir viktigheten av å forstå og dypt analysere alt relatert til Brian Friel tydelig, siden dets innflytelse overskrider grenser og omfatter flere aspekter av dagliglivet. I denne artikkelen vil vi dykke inn i Brian Friels verden for å utforske dens ulike fasetter og oppdage dens sanne innvirkning på verden i dag.
^Nightingale, Benedict. "Brian Friel's letters from an internal exile"Arkivert 14. februar 2021 hos Wayback Machine.. The Times. 23 February 2009. "But if it fuses warmth, humour and melancholy as seamlessly as it should, it will make a worthy birthday gift for Friel, who has just turned 80, and justify his status as one of Ireland's seven Saoi of the Aosdána, meaning that he can wear the Golden Torc round his neck and is now officially what we fans know him to be: a Wise Man of the People of Art and, maybe, the greatest living English-language dramatist."
^Canby, Vincent."Seeing, in Brian Friel's Ballybeg". The New York Times. 8 January 1996. "Brian Friel has been recognized as Ireland's greatest living playwright almost since the first production of "Philadelphia, Here I Come!" in Dublin in 1964. In succeeding years he has dazzled us with plays that speak in a language of unequaled poetic beauty and intensity. Such dramas as "Translations," "Dancing at Lughnasa" and "Wonderful Tennessee," among others, have given him a privileged place in our theater."
^Kemp, Conrad. "In the beginning was the image". Mail & Guardian. 25 June 2010. "Brian Friel, who wrote Translations and Philadelphia ... Here I Come, and who is regarded by many as one of the world's greatest living playwrights, has suggested that there is, in fact, no real need for a director on a production."
Litteratur
Tony Coult: About Friel: the Playwright and the Work. Faber & Faber, London 2003, ISBN 0-571-20164-4
Jochen Achilles: “Philadelphia, here I come!” In: Martha Kleinhans, Klaus Stierstorfer (Hrsg.): Lektüren für das 21. Jahrhundert. Schlüsseltexte europäischer Literatur: England, Frankreich, Irland, Italien, Portugal, Russland.Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg, 2001, ISBN 3-8260-1944-X, S. 1–26.
Jochen Achilles, Rüdiger Imhof: Achilles’ Art. In: Jochen Achilles, Rüdiger Imhof (Hrsg.): Irische Dramatiker der Gegenwart.WBG, Darmstadt 1996, ISBN 3-534-12656-4, S. 38–55
Walter T. Rix: Reflexionen des Nordirlandkonfliks: Das irische Drama als Forum des Zeitgeschehens (Brian Friel: The Freedom of the City. 1974). In: Horst Groene, Berthold Schik (Hrsg.): Das moderne Drama im Englischunterricht der Sekundarstufe II, Grundlegungen, Interpretationen, Kursprojekte. Scriptor Verlag, Königstein/Ts. 1980, ISBN 3-589-20743-4, s. 77–98