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The beauty queen of Leenane /

By: McDonagh, Martin [author.].
Contributor(s): Rees, Catherine (Lecturer in drama) [commentator.].
Publisher: London : Methuen Drama, 2013Edition: Student editions.Description: lviii, 69 pages ; 20 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9781408173831; 9781408173831:; 1408173832.Subject(s): Mother and child -- Drama | English drama -- Irish authors | Domestic ViolenceDDC classification: 822.914
Contents:
Martin McDonagh -- Plot -- Commentary : context and background ; themes - Irish national identity; Violence; In-yer-face theatre; Catholicism, the Church and morality; Satire and comedy; Gender and sexuality; Globalisation; Emigration; Escape ; Genre. Naturalism; Kitchen sink drama; Théâtre du grand guignol; Melodrama ; Language. Hiberno English ; Structure ; Characters ; Production history and critical reaction -- Further Reading -- THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE -- Notes -- Questions for Further Study.
Summary: "Set in the mountains of Connemara, County Galway, The Beauty Queen of Leenane tells the darkly comic tale of Maureen Folan, a plain and lonely spinster in her early forties, and Mag her devilishly manipulative ageing mother whose interference in Maureen's first and potentially last loving relationship sets in motion a train of events that is as gothically funny as it is horrific."--Publisher's website.Summary: This book tells the darkly comic tale of Maureen Folan, a plain and lonely woman in her early forties, and Mag her manipulative ageing mother whose interference in Maureen's first and potentially last loving relationship sets in motion a train of events that is as gothically funny as it is horrific.
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Standard Loan Standard Loan ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection 822.914 MCD (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Lost Checked out 10/02/2020 0089791
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Includes bibliographical references (pages lv-lviii).

Martin McDonagh -- Plot -- Commentary : context and background ; themes - Irish national identity; Violence; In-yer-face theatre; Catholicism, the Church and morality; Satire and comedy; Gender and sexuality; Globalisation; Emigration; Escape ; Genre. Naturalism; Kitchen sink drama; Théâtre du grand guignol; Melodrama ; Language. Hiberno English ; Structure ; Characters ; Production history and critical reaction -- Further Reading -- THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE -- Notes -- Questions for Further Study.

"Set in the mountains of Connemara, County Galway, The Beauty Queen of Leenane tells the darkly comic tale of Maureen Folan, a plain and lonely spinster in her early forties, and Mag her devilishly manipulative ageing mother whose interference in Maureen's first and potentially last loving relationship sets in motion a train of events that is as gothically funny as it is horrific."--Publisher's website.

This book tells the darkly comic tale of Maureen Folan, a plain and lonely woman in her early forties, and Mag her manipulative ageing mother whose interference in Maureen's first and potentially last loving relationship sets in motion a train of events that is as gothically funny as it is horrific.

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