期刊名称：Estudios Irlandeses : Journal of Irish Studies
电子版ISSN：1699-311X
出版年度：2013
期号：8
页码：22-31
出版社：Asociación Española de Estudios Irlandeses
摘要：After the worldwide success of the 1990 play Dancing at Lughnasa, Brian Friel (Omagh, 1929), a playwright known for his search for new ways of dealing with his old preoccupations, created what many critics understood as a sequel to that play. Wonderful Tennessee, which premiered in 1993 at the Abbey Theatre, has been frequently considered Lughnasa's younger and plainer sister. Whereas the seductiveness of the former cannot be denied, I intend to defend in this article the importance in Friel's oeuvre of Wonderful Tennessee, a play rich in meaning and original in form that presents a complete rite of passage as described in Victor Turner's anthropological studies. Friel unites elements that form part of ancient, Celtic and Christian rituals to show what has forever been humanity's aim: the attainment of the absolute
关键词：Brian Friel; Wonderful Tennessee; Victor Turner; ritual; theatre; liminality; rites of ;passage.
