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Theatre and ghosts : materiality, performance and modernity / edited by Mary Luckhurst and Emilie Morin, University of Melbourne, Australia, and University of York, UK.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English drama--19th century--History and criticism.
- English drama.
- English drama--20th century--History and criticism.
- American drama--20th century--History and criticism.
- American drama.
- Ghosts in literature.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 228 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Theater and ghosts
- Place of Publication:
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
- Summary:
- Theatre and Ghosts brings theatre and performance history into dialogue with the flourishing field of spectrality studies. The contributors include internationally renowned theatre scholars who have shaped the study of cultural memory. Essays shed new light on spectral economies, geo-politics and histories of acting; they span from adaptations of the Gothic to the operations and technologies of the modern and new supernatural, addressing topics such as ghost-seeing, horror shows, mediums, revenants, haunted sites, spiritual worlds and acting as an incarnation of the dead. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Theatre and spectrality / Mary Luckhurst and Emilie Morin
- Charles Dickens and the invention of the modern stage ghost / Marvin Carlson
- Gothic adaptation and the stage ghost / Nathalie Wolfram
- Apprehending the spectral: hauntology and precarity in Caryl Churchill's plays / Rachel Clements
- Heritage, capital and culture: the ghost of 'Sarah' at the Bristol Old Vic / Catherine Hindson
- Where were you when the lights went out?: American ghost shows of the twentieth century / Beth A. Kattelman
- Masculinity, haunting and twentieth-century American realism / Paul D. Streufert
- 'Pretty ghost, a duet': on dying while you still look good / Joseph Roach
- A restoration vanishing act: the case of Thomas Betterton's groin / Michael Cordner
- Giving up the ghost: the actor's body as haunted house / Mary Luckhurst
- Michael Chekhov: the spiritual realm and the invisible body / Tom Cornford
- Haunting Shakespeare, or King Lear meets Alice / Peter Holland.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-222) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781137345066
- 1137345063
- OCLC:
- 881720777
- Publisher Number:
- 40023995498
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