The Theatre of Martin McDonagh: 'A World of Savage Stories' (Paperback)

Contents: Werner Huber: The Early Plays: Martin McDonagh, Shooting Star and Hard Man from South London ? Rebecca Wilson: Macabre Merriment in McDonagh’s Melodrama: The Beauty Queen of Leenane ? Martin McDonagh/Conor McPherson: Ireland in two minds: Nicholas Grene ? Paul Murphy: The Stage Irish Are Dead, Long Live the Stage Irish: The Lonesome West and A Skull in Connemara ? Christopher Murray: The Cripple of Inishmaan Meets Lady Gregory ? Maria Kurdi: The Helen of Inishmaan Pegging Eggs: Gender, Sexuality and Violence ? Mary Luckhurst: Martin McDonagh’s Lieutenant of Inishmore: Selling (-Out) to the English ? Catherine Rees: The Politics of Morality: Martin McDonagh’s The Lieutenant of Inishmore ? Lisa Fitzpatrick: Language Games: The Pillowman, A Skull in Connemara: Martin McDonagh’s Hiberno-English ? Patrick Burke: ‘Like the Cat-astrophe of the Old Comedy’: The Animal in The Lieutenant of Inishmore ? Ashley Taggart: An ‘Economy Of Pity’: McDonagh’s Monstrous Regiment ? Eamonn Jordan: War on Narrative: Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman ? Laura Eldred: Martin McDonagh’s Blend of Tradition and Horrific Innovation ? Ondrej Pilny: Grotesque Entertainment: The Pillowman as Puppet Theatre ? John McDonagh: ‘When it’s there I am, it’s here I wish I was’: The Construction of Connemara ? Aidan Arrowsmith: Genuinely Inauthentic: McDonagh’s Postdiasporic Irishness ? Shaun Richards: ‘The Outpouring of a Morbid, Unhealthy Mind’: The Critical Condition of Synge and McDonagh ? Victor Merriman: Decolonization Postponed: The Theatre of Tiger Trash ? Sara Keating: Is Martin McDonagh an Irish Playwright? ? Patrick Lonergan: Martin McDonagh, Globalization, and Irish Theatre Criticism ? Peter P. Muller: Domesticating a Theatre of Cruelty: The Plays of McDonagh on the Hungarian Stage ? Frank Molloy: The Beauty Queen of Leenane in Australia ? Karen Vandevelde: Martin McDonagh’s Irishness: Icing on the Cake? ? Declan Kiberd: ‘The Real Ireland, Some Think’ ? Declan Kiberd: ‘Gained in Translation’ ? Uinsionn Mac Dubhghaill: ‘Drama Sails to Seven Islands’ ? Susan Conley: ‘The Beauty Queen of Leenane’ 2000 ? Karen Fricker: ‘Ireland Feels Power of Beauty’ ? Fintan O’Toole: ‘The Beauty Queen of Leenane’ ? Fintan O’Toole: ‘Murderous Laughter’ - ‘The Leenane Trilogy’ ? Fintan O’Toole: ‘The Pillowman Program Note’ ? Michael Billington: ‘New Themes in Synge-song Land: The Beauty Queen of Leenane’ ? Michael Billington: ‘The Pillowman’ ? Susannah Clapp: ‘Pack up your Troubles …’ ? Ben Brantley: ‘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’.