The grotesque in contemporary Anglophone drama / Ondřej Pilný.
Pilný, Ondřej. author.
2016
PR736
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Title The grotesque in contemporary Anglophone drama / Ondřej Pilný.
Author Pilný, Ondřej. author.
ISBN 9781137513182 (electronic book)
1137513187 (electronic book)
9781137513175
DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51318-2
Published London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
Copyright ©2016
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1057/978-1-137-51318-2 doi
Call Number PR736
Dewey Decimal Classification 822/.91
Summary Following on from the work of art historians and literary and cultural theorists, this book examines the ways in which varieties of the grotesque function in the plays of Philip Ridley, Mark O'Rowe, Enda Walsh, Suzan-Lori Parks and Tim Crouch. The term 'grotesque' has been frequently applied in commentaries on some of the most exciting contemporary drama, without much further elucidation. By producing visions of an alienated world, engendering simultaneous attraction and repulsion, and often triggering laughter that comes with a chill in the spine, the grotesque attacks both aesthetic and social conventions and requires a creative use of the imagination on the part of the spectators. The book argues that as such, the grotesque in the works of the selected playwrights solicits profound audience engagement with urgent ethical, social and political issues. The inevitable openness caused by the grotesque demonstrates the authors' faith in the deliberative powers of their audience, which stands in contrast to the ready-made choices offered by overtly committed political theatre.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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1. Introduction
2. Engaging Monsters
3. Wild Justice
4. Life in a Box
5. Mutabilities
6. Imagine This
7. Afterword.

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