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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Front Matter; Title Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Endnotes; PART 1: Fictional Places, Genre, Performance and Randomness; CHAPTER 1; Introduction: Welcome to the West; CHAPTER 2; Performing Irishness with Illegitimacy in The Cripple of Inishmaan; CHAPTER 3; In the Shadow of Living: Funery and Heterotopic Spaces in A Skull in Connemara; CHAPTER 4; Theatricality and Unpredictable Determinism in The Beauty Queen of Leenane ; CHAPTER 5; Conclusion; Endnotes; PART 2: Slapstick Cultures, Dismembering Farce and Grand-Guignol Incorrectness; CHAPTER 1. |
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Introduction: Uncompromising ContextsCHAPTER 2; Untitled; CHAPTER 3; Suspect Devices: The Lieutenant of Inishmore; CHAPTER 4; Untitled; CHAPTER 5; Conclusion; Endnotes; PART 3: A Moral Conundrum: Psychopathology, Empathy by Way of Fragmentary Stories; CHAPTER 1; Introduction: 'Against God'; CHAPTER 2; Unwanted -- Dead or Alive: Six Shooter; CHAPTER 3; A Winter Solstice: In Bruges; CHAPTER 4; Home Schooled and the Nation State: The Pillowman; CHAPTER 5; Zero Degrees of Separation: Seven Psychopaths; CHAPTER 6; Conclusion; Endnotes; Conclusion; Endnotes; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
As a playwright, screenwriter, and film director, Martin McDonagh has amassed an exceptional body of work since the premiere of the controversial, hugely successful, and career altering The Beauty Queen of Leenane in 1996. This renowned work was followed by acclaimed and award winning plays and films, such as The Lieutenant of Inishmore, The Pillowman, Six Shooter, In Bruges, and Seven Psychopaths. This wide ranging study considers the broad spectrum of influences on McDonagh's writing, his intricate dramaturgy, and complex relationships between the plays and their theatrical and broader so. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
McDonagh, Martin -- Criticism and interpretation.
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McDonagh, Martin. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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McDonagh, Martin. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jordan, Eamonn, 1964- author. From Leenane to L.A 9780716532163 (OCoLC)858824789 |
| ISBN |
9780716532279 (electronic book) |
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0716532271 (electronic book) |
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9780716532163 |
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0716532166 |
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0716532174 |
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9780716532170 |
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