Brian Friel Plays 1 (69 page)

Ignari!
Stulti!
Rustici!
:
Ignoramuses! Fools! Peasants!

domus
lugubris
:
house of mourning

infelix
:
unlucky, unhappy

Bararus
hic
ego
sum
quia
non
intelligor
ulli
:
I am a barbarian here because I am not understood by anyone
procede
:
proceed

edictum
imperatoris
:
the decree of the commander

desiderium
nostrorum
:
longing/need for our things/people.  

pietas
:
piety

Semper – per
omnia
saecula
:
Always – for all time.

always

to marry within the tribe 

to marry outside the tribe

Urbs
antiqua
fuit
:
There was an ancient city

late
regem
belloque
superbum
:
kings of broad realms and proud in war

Compiled by Frances-Jane French

Philadelphia,
Here
I
Come!
, London, Faber & Faber, 1965; New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1966

The
Loves
of
Cass McGuire,
London, Samuel French, 1966; London, Faber & Faber, 1967; New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1967

Lovers,
New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1968; London, Faber & Faber, 1969

Crystal
and
Fox,
London, Faber & Faber, 1970; New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1970 (in
Two
Plays
)

The Mundy
Scheme
, London, Samuel French, 1970; New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1970 (in
Two
Plays
)

The
Gentle
Island,
London, Davis Poynter, 1973

The
Freedom
of
the
City,
London, Faber & Faber, 1974; New York, Samuel French, 1974

The
Enemy
Within,
Newark, Delaware, Proscenium Press, 1975; Dublin, Gallery Press, 1979

Living
Quarters,
London, Faber & Faber, 1978

Volunteers,
London, Faber & Faber, 1979

Faith Healer,
London, Faber & Faber, 1980; New York, Samuel French, 1980

Aristocrats,
Dublin, Gallery Press, 1980; London, Faber & Faber, 1984

Translations,
Faber & Faber, 1981; New York, Samuel French, 1981

The
Three
Sisters
(translated from Chekhov), Dublin, Gallery Press, 1981

The
Communication
Cord,
London, Faber & Faber, 1983

A
Doubtful
Paradise
(
The
Francophile
)
,
performed Belfast, 1959

The
Blind
Mice,
performed Dublin, 1963

A
Sort
of
Freedom,
BBC Northern Ireland Home Service, 1958

To
This
Hard
House,
BBC Northern Ireland Home Service, 1958

The
Founder
Members,
BBC Light Programme, 1964

The
Loves
of Cass
McGuire,
BBC Third Programme, 1961

The
Enemy
Within,
BBC Third Programme, 1963

The
Blind
Mice,
BBC Northern Ireland Home Service, 1963

Philadelphia,
Here
I
Come!,
BBC Third Programme, 1965

Winners
(version of first part of
Lovers
)
,
BBC Third Programme, 1968

The
Enemy
Within,
BBC, 1965

Philadelphia,
Here
I
Come!,
1970

The
Saucer
of
Larks,
London, Gollancz, 1962; Garden City, NY, Doubleday, 1962

The
Gold
in
the
Sea,
London, Gollancz, 1966; Garden City, NY, Doubleday, 1966

Selected
Stories,
Dublin, Gallery Press, 1979; published as
The
Diviner:
The
Best
Stories
of
Brian
Friel,
Dublin, O’Brien Press, 1982; London, Allison & Busby, 1982

‘A Visit to Spain’,
Irish
Monthly
(Dublin and London), vol. 53, November 1952

‘The Theatre of Hope and Despair’ (text of lecture),
Everyman
(Benburb, Co. Tyrone), no. 1,1968

‘An Ulster Writer: Brian Friel’, conducted by Graham Morison,
Acorn
(Londonderry), no. 8, Spring 1965

Brian
Friel,
Desmond E. S. Maxwell, Lewisburg, Pa, Bucknell University Press, 1973 456

This collection first published in 1984 as
Selected Plays
Reissued as
Brian Friel: Plays One
in 1996
by Faber and Faber Ltd
Bloomsbury House
74–77 Great Russell Street
London WC1B 3DA
This ebook edition first published in 2013

All rights reserved
This collection © Brian Friel, 1996

Philadelphia, Here I Come!
Brian Friel, 1965
The Freedom of the City
© Brian Friel, 1974
Living Quarters
© Brian Friel, 1978
Aristocrats
© Brian Friel, 1980
Faith Healer
© Brian Friel, 1980
Translations
© Brian Friel, 1981
Introduction
© Seamus Deane, 1984

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