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Violence and Identity in Northern Ireland: Graham Reid's The Death of Humpty Dumpty

Graham Reid is one of the best known and most prolific of contemporary playwrights writing of the current crisis in Northern Ireland. Moreover, Reid's early stage plays, The Death of Humpty Dumpty (1979), Dorothy (1980), The Closed Door (1980), and The Hidden Curriculum (1982), show a preoccupation with an arresting and widely accepted view of the crisis: the terrifying effect of paramilitary violence on individuals whose only relationship to the conflict is a relationship of fear. This article exantines the first and most enthusiastically received of these plays, The Death of Humpty Dumpty