Theatre and Ghosts [electronic resource] : Materiality, Performance and Modernity /
Luckhurst, M.editor.
Morin, E.editor.
Theatre and Ghosts brings theatre and performance history into dialogue with the flourishing field of spectrality studies. Essays examine the histories and economies of the material operations of theatre, and the spectrality of performance and performer.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Theatre and Spectrality; Part I: Ghosts, Stage Adaptation and Technology; 1 Charles Dickens and the Invention of the Modern Stage Ghost; 2 Gothic Adaptation and the Stage Ghost; Part II: Spectral Economies; 3 Apprehending the Spectral: Hauntology and Precarity in Caryl Churchill''s Plays; 4 Heritage, Capital and Culture: The Ghost of ''Sarah'' at the Bristol Old Vic; 5 Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?: American Ghost Shows of the Twentieth Century; Part III: Modernity, Gender and Ghost Aesthetics
6 Masculinity, Haunting and Twentieth-Century American Realism7 ''Pretty Ghost, a Duet'': On Dying While You Still Look Good; Part IV: Acting, Absence and Rematerialization; 8 A Restoration Vanishing Act: The Case of Thomas Betterton''s Groin; 9 Giving Up the Ghost: The Actor''s Body as Haunted House; 10 Michael Chekhov: The Spiritual Realm and the Invisible Body; 11 Haunting Shakespeare, or King Lear Meets Alice; Select Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Theatre and Ghosts brings theatre and performance history into dialogue with the flourishing field of spectrality studies. Essays examine the histories and economies of the material operations of theatre, and the spectrality of performance and performer.
Theater—History.
Performing arts.
Arts.
Theater.
Theatre History.
Performing Arts.
Arts.
Theatre and Performance Studies.