Justice in the Plays and Films of Martin McDonagh

Eamonn Jordan is Associate Professor in Drama Studies at the School of English, Drama and Film, University College Dublin, Ireland. His book The Feast of Famine: The Plays of Frank McGuinness (1997) is the first full-length study on McGuinness's work. Some of Jordan’s other publications on Irish theatre include: From Leenane to LA: The Theatre and Cinema of Martin McDonagh (2014); The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Irish Theatre (co-edited with Eric Weitz (2018); and The Theatre and Films of Conor McPherson: Conspicuous Communities (2019).

• Introduction: Beware of Justice.- 1. CSI Connemara and State Incompetence: The Beauty Queen of Leenane, A Skull in Connemara (1997) and The Lonesome West.- 2. Unreasonable Doubt: Hangmen.- 3. To the Letter of the Law:The Pillowman.- 4. To the Victim the Spoils of Justice: Six Shooter, A Behanding in Spokane and The Lieutenant of Inishmore.- 5. Revengers’ Charter: In Bruges, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and Seven Psychopaths.- 6. Conclusion: Abject Justice/Abject Laughter.