Irishness troubles: trasformazioni dell'identità irlandese nella Field Day Theatre Company by Manfredi Bernardini

“…This paper analyzes the Field Day Theatre Company’s performances wondering whether we are confronted with an experience in a genuinely innovative way of looking at national identity or, rather, this is yet another way to state a different, but little hybrid, representation of Irishness.…”
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Rhetoric and History in Brian Friel’s Making History by Manfredi Bernardini

“…This paper proposes an analysis of the rhetorical devices of representation and recording of history, investigated and deconstructed by the so-called "history play" Making History, written by Brian Friel and performed by the Field Day Theatre Company in 1988. The play tells of the heroic deeds of Hugh O’ Neill, a Sixteenth century Ulster gaelic Lord, intertwining his personal facts with the crucial events in Irish History. …”
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