Theatre and Ghosts

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 Select Bibliography Index