Learning Outcomes:
• Will be able to critically evaluate and contextualize the work of Martin McDonagh
• Will have interrogated the critical frameworks through which critics and commentators consider the plays
• Will understand issues surrounding verisimilitude, mimetic realism, and context, in performative, political and socio-economic terms
• Will have considered how the conventions of a notional naturalism/realism inform but also limit the texts in unusual ways,
• Will have reflected on issues of Irishnesss and representations.
• Will have considered the relationship between text and performance
Indicative Module Content:
Critical readings will be assigned each week.
Seminars- Provisional Outline
Wk 1- Introduction: General Overview
Wk 2- The Beauty Queen of Leenane
Wk 3- The Lonesome West and A Skull in Connemara
Wk 4 The Cripple of Inishmaan
Wk 5 The Lieutenant of Inishmore
Wk 6- A Behanding in Spokane and Hangmen
Wk 7- Six Shooter & Seven Psychopaths
Reading Week
Wk 8- 3 Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri and A Very Very Very Dark Matter
Wk 9- The Pillowman
Wk 10- In Bruges
Essay consultation/ Book at time