This short collection of essays looks at the television show and films produced by the Monty Python troupe from a number of perspectives: ·Gender studies ·Post-structuralism ·Psychoanalysis ·Cultural studies

Acknowledgements Bibliographical Information Foreword Terry Jones Part One: Monty Python’s Body and Death 1. “It’s a Mr. Death or something. He has come about the reaping. I don’t think we need any at the moment”: Death and the Denial of Death in the Works of Monty Python Katarzyna Małecka 2. The Body, Desire and the Abject: The Corpse and Cannibalism in Monty Python’s Flying Circus Sketches Edyta Lorek-Jezińska 3. The Representation of Women in Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life Katarzyna Poloczek Part Two: Monty Python, The Fool 4. Monty Python and the Flying Feast of Fools Stephen Butler and Wojciech Klepuszewski 5. “How fortunate we are indeed to have such a poet on these shores”: Shakespeare, Monty Python and the Tradition of the Wise Fool Miguel Ángel González Campos 6. The Village Idiot and His Relation to the Unconscious Tomasz Dobrogoszcz Part Three: Monty Python Goes Abroad 7. The British Look Abroad: Monty Python and the Foreign Tomasz Dobrogoszcz 8. 20th Century Vole, Mr. Neutron, and Spam: Portrayals of American Culture in the Work of Monty Python Kevin F. Kern 9. Monty Python’s Fliegender Zirkus: the Unique German Show Adam Sumera Part Four: Pythonian Aesthetics and Beyond 10. Eric Idle and the Counterculture Richard Mills 11. Kitsch Britannia in Monty Python’s Flying Circus Justyna Stępień List of Contributors Index About the Contributors About the Editor