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The theatre of Martin McDonagh: a world of savage stories
Publisher
Carysfort Press
Publication Date
2006
Language
English
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From the Book
1. early plays : Martin McDonagh, shooting star and hard man from South London / Werner Huber
2. Macabre Merriment in McDonagh's melodrama : The beauty queen of Leenane / Rebecca Wilson
3. Ireland in two minds : Martin McDonagh and Conor McPherson / Nicholas Grene
4. stage Irish are dead, long live the stage Irish : The lonesome west and A skull in Connemara / Paul Murphy
5. cripple of Inishmaan meets Lady Gregory / Christopher Murray
6. Helen of Inishmaan pegging eggs : gender, sexuality and violence / Maria Kurdi
7. Martin McDonagh's Lieutenant of Inishmore : selling (-out) to the English / Mary Luckhurst
8. politics of morality : Martin McDonagh's The Lieutenant of Inishmore / Catherine Rees
9. Language games : The pillowman, A skull in Connemara : Martin McDonagh's Hiberno-English / Lisa Fitzpatrick
10. 'Like the cat-astrophe of the old comedy' : the animal in The lieutenant of Inishmore / Patrick Burke
11. 'economy of pity' : McDonagh's monstrous regiment / Ashley Taggatt
12. War on narrative : Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman / Eamonn Jordan
13. Martin McDonagh's blend of tradition and horrific innovation / Laura Eldred
14. Grotesque entertainment : The pillowman as puppet theatre / Ondrej Pilny
15. 'When it's there I am, it's here I wish I was' : the construction of Connemara / John McDonagh
16. Genuinely inauthentic : McDonagh's postdiasporic Irishness / Aidan Arrowsmith
17. outpouring of a morbid, unhealthy mind' : the critical condition of Synge and McDonagh / Shaun Richards
18. Decolonization postponed : the theatre of tiger trash / Victor Merriman
19. Is Martin McDonagh an Irish playwright? / Sara Keating
20. Martin McDonagh, globalization, and Irish theatre criticism / Patrick Lonergan
21. Domesticating a theatre of cruelty : the plays of McDonagh on the Hungarian stage / Peter P. Muller
22. beauty queen of Leenane in Australia / Frank Molloy
23. Martin McDonagh's Irishness : icing on the cake? / Karen Vandevelde
Reports and reviews
'The real ireland, some think' / Declan Kiberd
'Gained in translation' / Declan Kiberd
'Drama sails to seven islands' / Uinsionn Mac Dubhghaill
beauty queen of Leenane' 2000 / Susan Conley
'Ireland feels power of beauty' / Karen Fricker
'The beauty queen of Leenane' / Fintan O'Toole
'Murderous laughter' - 'the Leenane trilogy' / Fintan O'Toole
'The pillowman program note' / Fintan O'Toole
'New themes in Synge-song land : The beauty queen of Leenane' / Michael Billington
'The pillowman' / Michael Billington
'Pack up your troubles ...' / Susannah Clapp
'The beauty queen of Leenane' / Ben Brantley
cripple of Inishmaan' / Ben Brantley
'The lonesome west : another tempestuous night in Leenane' / Ben Brantley
'A skull in Connemara' / Ben Brantley
'The pillowman' / Ben Brantley.
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9783518418178
9781904505198
9781904505198
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