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'Pastiche Soup,' Bad Taste, Biting Irony and Martin McDonagh

Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
2005

Abstract

This paper addresses playwright Martin McDonagh's citational practices in the context of different approaches to pastiche and parody in postmodernity, to argue that while his plays might be viewed as "sites of the disappearance of meaning and representation,? they simultaneously have also facilitated a debate as to the political potential of parodic practice in contemporary theatre.