Introduction / Richard Rankin Russell -- The identity politics of Martin McDonagh / Jose Lanters -- Martin McDonagh's stagecraft / Joan FitzPatrick Dean -- Comedy and violence in The beauty queen of Leenane / Marion Castleberry -- The "ineffectual father Welsh/Walsh"? : anti-Catholicism and Catholicism in Martin McDonagh's The Leenane trilogy / Stephanie Pocock -- Postmodern theatricality in the Dutch/Flemish adaptation of Martin McDonagh's The Leenane trilogy / Karen Vandevelde -- Breaking bodies : the presence of violence on Martin McDonagh's stage / Maria Doyle -- Martin McDonagh and the contemporary gothic / Laura Eldred -- The pillowman : a new story to tell / Brian Cliff -- "Never mind the shamrocks" : globalizing Martin McDonagh / Patrick Lonergan.
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"This book represents the first collection of original critical material on Martin McDonagh, one of the most celebrated young playwrights of the last decade. Credited with reinvigorating contemporary Irish drama, his dark, despairing comedies have been performed extensively both on Broadway and in the West End, culminating in an Olivier Award for The Pillowman and an Academy Award for his short film Six Shooter." "In Martin McDonagh: A Casebook, Richard Rankin Russell brings together a variety of theoretical perspectives - from globalisation to the gothic - to survey McDonagh's plays in unprecedented critical depth. Specially commissioned essays cover topics such as identity politics, the shadow of violence and the role of Catholicism in the work of this most precocious of contemporary dramatists."--Jacket.
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Martin McDonagh.
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McDonagh, Martin-- Criticism and interpretation.
McDonagh, Martin-- Criticism and interpretation.
McDonagh, Martin-- Criticism and interpretation.
McDonagh, Martin.
McDonagh, Martin.
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English drama-- Irish authors-- 20th century-- History and criticism.