title: Liminaridade, Sacrifício e Reciprocidade: uma abordagem do ritual em três peças de Brian Friel
abstract: and Dancing at Lughnassa (1990) written within a period of almost thirty years. Our thesis is that Friel writes all three plays as rituals, a conception taken from the Cambridge Ritualists, who in the 1920s assume that Greek tragedy and drama grew out of the ancient fertility rituals. We notice that the influence of tragedy and rituals on Friel's work is more connected to the form and approach to the plays as rituals than to the rewriting of Greek tragedies or myths. Friel reworks myths and ritu