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Title

The theatre of Martin McDonagh : a world of savage stories / edited by Lilian Chambers and Eamonn Jordan.

Publication

Dublin : Carysfort Press, 2006.

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Additional Authors

• Chambers, Lilian.
• Jordan, Eamonn, 1964-

Description

x, 443 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

McDonagh, Martin > Criticism and interpretation

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [423]-425) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Sect. 1. Textual and cultural contexts -- The early plays: Martin McDonagh, shooting star and hard man from South London / Werner Huber -- Macabre merriment in McDonagh's melodrama: the beauty queen of Leenane / Rebecca Wilson -- Ireland in two minds: Martin McDonagh and Conor McPherson / Nicholas Grene -- The stage Irish are dead, long live the stage Irish: the lonesome west and a skull in Connemara / Paul Murphy -- The cripple of Inishmaan meets Lady Gregory / Christopher Murray -- The Helen of Inishmaan pegging eggs: gender, sexuality and violence / Mária Kurdi -- Martin McDonagh's lieutenant of Inishmore: selling (-out) to the English / Mary Luckhurst -- The politics of morality: Martin McDonagh's the lieutenant of Inishmore / Catherine Rees -- Language games: the pillowman, a skull in Connemara: Martin McDonagh's Hiberno-English / Lisa Fitzpatrick -- 'Like the cat-astrophe of the old comedy': the animal in the lieutenant of Inishmore / Patrick Burke -- An 'economy of pity': McDonagh's monstrous regiment / Ashley Taggart -- War on narrative: Martin McDonagh's the pillowman / Eamonn Jordan -- Martin McDonagh's blend of tradition and horrific innovation / Laura Eldred -- Grotesque entertainment: the pillowman as puppet theatre / Ondřej Pilný -- Sect. 2. Critical frameworks -- 'When it's there I am, it's here I wish I was': the construction of Connemara / John McDonagh -- Genuinely inauthentic: McDonagh's postdiaspotic Irishness / Aidan Arrowsmith -- 'The outpouring of a morbid, unhealthy mind': the critical condition of synge and McDonagh / Shaun Richards -- Decolonization postponed: the theatre of tiger trash / Victor Merriman -- Is Martin McDonagh an Irish playwright / Sara Keating -- Martin McDonagh, globalization, and Irish theatre criticism / Patrick Lonergan.
• Sect. 3. Performance contexts -- Domesticating a theatre of cruelty: the plays of McDonagh on the Hungarian stage / Péter P. Müller -- The beauty queen of Leenane in Australia / Frank Molloy -- 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 -- 'The 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 -- 'The 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.

ISBN

1904505198 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2006494160

OCLC

• 71358900
• SCSB-11009030

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library