Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition

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 Mä ecka
2. The Body, Desire and the Abject: The Corpse and Cannibalism in Monty Python's Flying Circus Sketches
Edyta Lorek-Jezi ska
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 Á ngel Gonzá lez 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 St pie
List of Contributors
Index
About the Contributors
About the Editor