Studies in English Drama and Poetry

Introduction 7

Part One. Reading Subversion and Transgression in Drama 13
Estella Ciobanu, Staging Transgression Stories in the Later Middle Ages: Divine Fiat, Truth and Justice in the N-Town Play of the Annunciation 15
Tomasz Wiącek, Legal and Social Discourse of Matrimony in Selected N-Town Cycle Plays 31
Lucía Bodas Fernández, Freedom above the Law: Friedrich Schiller’s Die Räuber 45
Andreas Schardt, Geographic Transgression and Epic Theatre: The Subversiveness of the Pastoral Idyll in Edward Bond’s Lear 55
Michał Lachman, Seeking out Strangeness: Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul 67
Paulina Mirowska, The Silencing of Dissent: Harold Pinter’s Bleak Political Vision 79
Jadwiga Uchman, Quantum Mechanics and the Relativity of Human Identity: Tom Stoppard’s Hapgood 93
Tomasz Wiśniewski, The Mathematics in a Dramatic Text – A Disappearing Number by Complicite 105
Monika Sosnowska, Sensory Transgression: Literary Representations of Women’s Sight and Hearing in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet 115
Dagmara Krzyżaniak, The Nature of Contemporary Catharsis in Marina Carr’s By the Bog of Cats 127
Edyta Lorek-Jezińska, Gender/Genre Disruption in Bryony Lavery’s Her Aching Heart 137

Part Two. Reading Subversion and Transgression in Poetry 149
Rory McTurk, Tolkien’s Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún: Creative Drama or Scholarly Exercise? 151
Monika Kocot, Transgressing the Normative in Edwin Morgan’s “Message Clear” 167

Part Three. Reading Subversion and Transgression in Prose 175
Jacek Kowzan, The Rite-of-Passage Structure in Medieval and Early Modern Visionary Accounts 177
Agnieszka Łowczanin, Damsels and Demons: Transgressive Females from Clarissa to Carmilla 189
Andrzej Wicher, The Discourse of Orientalism in C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia 201
Małgorzata Janik, Subversive Form, Provocative Content and Truth at All Costs: Liberature of B. S. Johnson 217
Anna Krawczyk-Łaskarzewska, “Smilers, Defilers, Reekers and Leakers”– Dogs as Tools of Subversion and Transgression in Short Stories by Edgar A. Poe, Mark Twain and Ambrose Bierce 229
Mark Tardi, Great Expectations: Incest and Incompleteness in Kathy Acker’s Blood and Guts in High School 247
Katarzyna Więckowska, Brief Interviews with Liminality: The Case of David Foster Wallace 255

Contributors 267