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| Titre : | There's ropes and there's ropes : The Moral and Textual Fibre of Martin McDonagh's Hangmen (2018) |
| Auteurs : | José LANTERS, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Irish University Review (Vol 48 n 2 Autumn/Winter 2018) |
| Article en page(s) : | p. 315-330 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
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| Résumé : | Martin McDonagh's Hangmen (2015) is concerned with the moral question of justice. Set in a northern English pub run by a former hangman, the play's action takes place in 1965, on the day capital punishment is abolished in Britain. Combining (meta)fictional elements with details from actual criminal cases (in particular the so-called A6 murder, for which James Hanratty was hanged in 1963), Hangmen weaves three potential plot lines around its enigmatic central character, Peter Mooney. These conflicting narratives highlight that justice and punishment always exist as stories embedded in a context, which are invariably partial, composed for a purpose, and open to interpretation. Incorporating ideas from Nietzsche and Kierkegaard, Hangmen suggests that any justice system reflects the implicit biases of the society in which it operates. |
| Pays de publication : | Grande-Bretagne (Royaume Uni) |
| Fonds : | Médiathèque |
