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" Theatre and ghosts : "
edited by Mary Luckhurst and Emilie Morin.
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BL
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726645
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b546377
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edited by Mary Luckhurst and Emilie Morin.
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Theatre and ghosts : : materiality, performance and modernity\ edited by Mary Luckhurst and Emilie Morin.
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[Basingstoke]: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
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1137345071
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: 9781137345073
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| Contents
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Introduction: Theatre and Spectrality; Mary Luckhurst and Emilie Morin --;PART I: GHOSTS, STAGE ADAPTATION AND TECHNOLOGY --;1.'Charles Dickens and the Invention of the Modern Stage Ghost'; Marvin Carlson --;2.'Gothic Adaptation and the Stage Ghost'; Nathalie Wolfram --;PART II: SPECTRAL ECONOMIES --;3.'Apprehending the Spectral: Hauntology and Precarity in Caryl Churchill's Plays'; Rachel Clements --;4.'Heritage, Capital and Culture: The Ghost of 'Sarah' at the Bristol Old Vic'; Catherine Hindson --;5.'Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?: American Ghost Shows of the Twentieth Century'; Beth A. Kattelman --;PART III: MODERNITY, GENDER AND GHOST AESTHETICS --;6.'Masculinity, Haunting and Twentieth-Century American Realism'; Paul D. Streufert --;7. ''Pretty Ghost, a Duet': On Dying While You Still Look Good'; Joseph Roach --;PART IV: ACTING, ABSENCE AND REMATERIALIZATION --;8.'A Restoration Vanishing Act: The Case of Thomas Betterton's Groin'; Michael Cordner --;9.'Giving Up the Ghost: The Actor's Body as Haunted House'; Mary Luckhurst --;10.'Michael Chekhov: The Spiritual Realm and the Invisible Body'; Tom Cornford --;11.'Haunting Shakespeare, or King Lear Meets Alice'; Peter Holland.
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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.
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Ghost plays.
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LANGUAGE ARTS DISCIPLINES -- Composition Creative Writing.
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Theatre direction production.
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PR736.E358 2014
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Emilie Morin
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Mary Luckhurst
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