Theatre and Ghosts: Materiality, Performance and Modernity PDF
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Theatre and Ghosts Also by Mary Luckhurst DRAMATURGY: A Revolution in Theatre THEATRE AND CELEBRITY IN BRITAIN, 1660–2000 ON ACTING ON DIRECTING THE BLACKWELL COMPANION TO BRITISH AND IRISH DRAMA, 1880–2005 THE BLACKWELL COMPANION TO CONTEMPORARY BRITISH AND IRISH DRAMA PLAYING FOR REAL: Actors on Playing Real People CARYL CHURCHILL Also by Emilie Morin SAMUEL BECKETT AND THE PROBLEM OF IRISHNESS Theatre and Ghosts Materiality, Performance and Modernity Edited by Mary Luckhurst and Emilie Morin University of Melbourne, Australia, and University of York, UK Selection, introduction and editorial matter © Mary Luckhurst and Emilie Morin 2014 Individual chapters © Contributors 2014 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2014 978-1-137-34506-6 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. 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For Roger and For Henriette This page intentionally left blank Contents List of Figures ix Acknowledgements xi Notes on Contributors xii Introduction: Theatre and Spectrality 1 Mary Luckhurst and Emilie Morin Part I Ghosts, Stage Adaptation and Technology 1 Charles Dickens and the Invention of the Modern Stage Ghost 27 Marvin Carlson 2 Gothic Adaptation and the Stage Ghost 46 Nathalie Wolfram Part II Spectral Economies 3 Apprehending the Spectral: Hauntology and Precarity in Caryl Churchill’s Plays 65 Rachel Clements 4 Heritage, Capital and Culture: The Ghost of ‘Sarah’ at the Bristol Old Vic 82 Catherine Hindson 5 Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?: American Ghost Shows of the Twentieth Century 96 Beth A. Kattelman Part III Modernity, Gender and Ghost Aesthetics 6 Masculinity, Haunting and Twentieth-Century American Realism 113 Paul D. Streufert 7 ‘Pretty Ghost, a Duet’: On Dying While You Still Look Good 128 Joseph Roach vii viii Contents Part IV Acting, Absence and Rematerialization 8 A Restoration Vanishing Act: The Case of Thomas Betterton’s Groin 143 Michael Cordner 9 Giving Up the Ghost: The Actor’s Body as Haunted House 163 Mary Luckhurst 10 Michael Chekhov: The Spiritual Realm and the Invisible Body 178 Tom Cornford 11 Haunting Shakespeare, or King Lear Meets Alice 197 Peter Holland Select Bibliography 217 Index 223 List of Figures 1.1 John Tenniel, Frontispiece to Charles Dickens, The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain: A Fancy for Christmas-Time (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848). Reproduced by permission of Leeds University Library. 30 1.2 John Leech, ‘Redlaw and the Phantom,’ in Charles Dickens, The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain: A Fancy for Christmas-Time (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848), 34. Reproduced by permission of Leeds University Library. 33 1.3 ‘Comment on produit les spectres.’ Illustration in Marion Fulgence, L’Optique (Paris: Hachette, 1867), fig. 73, 377. HCL Widener Library KPD 4211. Reproduced by permission of the Widener Library, Harvard College Library. 39 2.1 Robert Thew, Illustration for Hamlet. Act I. Scene IV, 1793. Etching, 50.2 (cid:2) 63.7 cm. Courtesy of the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. 54 5.1 Generic Spook Show Poster, designed and printed by Triangle Poster Co., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, circa 1950. Image © Triangle Poster Company. Reproduced by permission of Triangle Poster Company. 103 7.1 William Holland, The Castle Spectre and her Ernest Admirer!, 1798. Etching, 36 (cid:2) 39.8 cm. Printed by William Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street. Courtesy of the Lewis Walpole Library, Farmington, Connecticut. 134 11.1 Julia Margaret Cameron, ‘King Lear Allotting his Kingdom to his Three Daughters,’ 1872. Photograph; albumen print, 34.5 (cid:2) 28.5 cm. National Media Museum, Bradford. 10454515 © Royal Photographic Society/NMEM/ SSPL. Reproduced by permission of the National Media Museum, Bradford. 198 ix
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