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Contents
1. Introduction
2. About the author
3. About the play
3.1. Plot
3.2. Reference to “Men of Aran”
4. What is comedy?
4.1. Humour Theories – Incongruity, Superiority and Release/Relief Theory
4.2. Ethnic Humour
4.3. Structure of a comedy
4.4. Stock characters
5. Humour in the Cripple of Inishmaan
5.1. characters
5.1.1. Johnnypateenmike
5.1.2. Mammy
5.1.3. Kate and Eileen
5.1.4. Bartley
5.1.5. Helen
5.1.6. Billy
5.2. Style
5.2.1. Language
5.2.2. Repetitions
6. The cripple of Inishmaan – an Irish national drama?
7. Conclusion
8. Works Cited
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- Maren Tanner (Author), 2010, Comic Elements in the Drama "Cripple of Inishmaan" by Martin McDonagh, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/231030
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