Date of Award
2012
Document Type
Honors Thesis
Department
English
First Advisor
Beverly Matiko
Second Advisor
Trina Thompson
Abstract
Music has consistently played a major role in the work of Irish playwright Brian Friel and provides a steady backdrop for Dancing at Lughnasa (1990), a memory play about a family in Northern Ireland struggling to stay together in the August of 1936. This paper examines the function of music within the context of the play to see how it heightens the themes of identity, otherness, and memory. It also examines the history and various genres of selected works from the play to further investigate how Friel's selection of particular songs reflects the emotional states and ideologies of the characters.
Recommended Citation
Tetz, Catherine, "A Language Without Words: Music as an Agent of Identity in Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa" (2012). Honors Theses. 49.
https://dx.doi.org/10.32597/honors/49/
https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/honors/49
Subject Area
Music in literature
Creative Commons License
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DOI
https://dx.doi.org/10.32597/honors/49/