Dramatic Apparitions and Theatrical Ghosts The Staging of Illusion Across Time and Cultures.
Ghosts haunt the stages of world theatre, appearing in classical Greek drama through to the plays of 21st-century dramatists. Tracing the phenomenon across time and in different cultures, the chapters collected here examine their representation, dramatic function, and what they may tell us about the...
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Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Preface Summoning the Illusion Within the Illusion
- An Introduction, <i>Ann C. Hall (University of Louisville, USA) and Alan Nadel (University of Kentucky, USA)</i> <i> </i>1. Made of Anxiety: Two (or Three) Ghosts in Aeschylus, <i>John Timpane (Independent scholar, USA)</i> 2. A Theater of Ghosts: Spirits on the Traditional Japanese Stage, <i>Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. (Loyola Marymount University, USA)</i> 3. The Holiest of Ghosts: Staging the Supernatural in the Early Middle Ages, <i>Andrew Rabin (University of Louisville, USA)</i> 4. "I Am Not Here": Staging the (Un)Dead and the Thresholds of Theatrical Performance, <i>Christopher Salamone (University of Oxford, UK)</i> 5. Creating Stage Ghosts: The Archeology of Spectral Illusion, <i>Beth Kattelman (Lawrence and Lee Theater Research Institute, The Ohio State University, USA)</i> 6. <i>Blithe Spirit</i>: A Spectral Anatomy of Astral Bigamy, <i>Judith Roof (Independent scholar, USA)</i> 7. The Ghost of Unrequited Love Possesses the Modern Heart: Paddy Chayefsky's Dybbuk in <i>The Tenth Man, Ben Furnish (</i><i>Haskell Indian Nations University</i><i>, USA)</i> 8. Of Outlaws and Spirits: Sam Shepard's <i>Fool for Love</i> (1983) and David Mamet's <i>Prairie du Chien</i> (1979) and <i>The Shawl</i> (1985), <i>Ann C. Hall (University of Louisville, USA)</i> 9. Literal Ghosts, Figurative Humanity, and the Specter of Capitalism in August Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle, <i>Alan Nadel (University of Kentucky, USA)</i> 10. "All Spooked Out": <i>Topdog/Underdog</i>'s Ghosts, <i>Jennifer Larson (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)</i> 11. Deficient Visitations: Staging Ghostliness and Irishness in Martin McDonagh's Comedy, <i>Craig N. Owens (Drake University, USA)</i> 12. Holding the Dead Close: The Comfort of Ghosts in the Plays of Sarah Ruhl, <i>Amy Muse (University of St. Thomas, USA)</i> 13. Anishinaabe, Dakhota, and Nimiipuu Hauntings in the Indigenous Drama of Alanis King, LeAnne Howe, and Beth Piatote,<b> </b><i>Margaret Noodin (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA)</i> Index