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The Grotesque in Contemporary Anglophone Drama

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  1. Ondřej Pilný

    1. Dept of Anglophone Lit & Cult, Fac of Ar, Charles University, Prague 1, Czech Republic

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction: The Grotesque and Contemporary Drama

    • Ondřej Pilný
    Pages 1-27

  3. Engaging Monsters: Philip Ridley

    • Ondřej Pilný
    Pages 29-55

  4. Wild Justice: Mark O’Rowe

    • Ondřej Pilný
    Pages 57-80

  5. Life in a Box: Enda Walsh

    • Ondřej Pilný
    Pages 81-102

  6. Mutabilities: Suzan-Lori Parks

    • Ondřej Pilný
    Pages 103-129

  7. Imagine This: Tim Crouch

    • Ondřej Pilný
    Pages 131-161

  8. Afterword: The Grotesque and Spectatorship

    • Ondřej Pilný
    Pages 163-169

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 171-178
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About this book

Grotesque features have been among the chief characteristics of drama in English since the 1990s. This new book examines the varieties of the grotesque in the work of some of the most original playwrights of the last three decades (including Enda Walsh, Philip Ridley, Tim Crouch and Suzan-Lori Parks), focusing in particular on ethical and political issues that arise from the use of the grotesque.

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“Pilný’s book delivers an always perspicacious and often eloquent set of readings of plays that speak to a cultural moment of distress and crisis by summoning elements and strategies of the grotesque. In so doing, he enriches our understanding of the role of contemporary theatre to hold a distorted mirror, as’ twere, up to our distorted nature, and perhaps the clairvoyance that paradoxically emerges from that double warping is the true purpose of the grotesque.” (Ralf Remshardt, Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, Vol 6 (02), November, 2018)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Dept of Anglophone Lit & Cult, Fac of Ar, Charles University, Prague 1, Czech Republic

    Ondřej Pilný

About the author

Ondřej Pilný is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Irish Studies at Charles University, Prague. He is the author of Irony and Identity in Modern Irish Drama and has edited collections of essays and journal issues on subjects ranging from Anglophone drama and Irish literature to cultural memory and structuralist theory. His translations include plays by J.M. Synge, Brian Friel, Martin McDonagh and Enda Walsh.

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