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Lieutenant of Inishmore

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ISBN-10: 1408111071

ISBN-13: 9781408111079

Edition: 2009

Authors: Martin McDonagh, Patrick Lonergan, Chris Megson, Jenny Stevens

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The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Martin McDonagh's hilariously gruesome play about political terrorism in rural Ireland, depicts an absurd world in which killing, bombing and torturing, are just jobs, and sentimentality is reserved for animals.Padraic, a maverick lieutenant refused entry to the I.R.A for being 'too mad', rushes back to Inishmore upon hearing the news that 'his only friend in the world', wee Thomas the Cat, is 'poorly'. Finding that his cat has had his brains blown out, he goes in search of justice for his murdered friend.First produced in 2001 by the Royal Shakespeare Company, The Lieutenant of Inishmore is McDonagh's daring, satirical engagement with Republican paramilitaries.…    
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Book details

List price: $10.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Publication date: 5/19/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.79" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.242
Language: English

Patrick Lonergan is Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at National University of Ireland, Galway. He writes about theatre for The Irish Times and Irish Theatre Magazine. His first book, Theatre and Globalization, was awarded the 2008 Theatre Book Prize. He has authored two Student Editions of plays by Martin McDonagh, is editor of The Methuen Drama Anthology of Irish Plays and series editor of the Critical Companions.

Chris Megson is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has taught and published widely in the field of modern drama, and is editor of The Methuen Drama Book of Naturalist Plays. Other works include: Get Real: Documentary Theatre Past and Present (with Alison Forsyth, 2011), and Modern British Playwriting: The 70s: Voices, Documents, New Interpretations (2012).

Jenny Stevens is in Associate Lecturer for the Open University and a constultant for Ofqual as well as teacher trainer and a teacher of A Level English Literature.