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By looking at two recent plays by one of contemporary Britain’s most influential playwrights, this chapter attempts to retrace a shift in the configuration of male gender identities, a shift which is not restricted to Martin McDonagh’s work only, but which could be read as symbolic for a larger transformation in the understanding of gender roles in general.
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Funk, W. (2010). Histories of Violence — Fairytales of Identity and Masculinity in Martin McDonagh’s The Lieutenant of Inishmore and The Pillowman . In: Emig, R., Rowland, A. (eds) Performing Masculinity. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230276086_12
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