A Body that Matters: Tom Kilroy's <em> Talbot's Box </em>

This paper looks at Tom Kilroy’s play Talbot Box, and argues that it resorts to the tropes of the Passion narrative, revisited by ex-centric mystic Matt Talbot, to expose the homogenising, normalising and exploitative efforts of the Catholic Church, a powerful institution which is shown to work in...

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Main Author: Alexandra Poulain
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Firenze University Press 2013-12-01
Series:Studi Irlandesi
Online Access:https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-sijis/article/view/7189