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Dramatic Apparitions and Theatrical Ghosts - The Staging of Illusion across Time and Cultures (Hardcover)
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Dramatic Apparitions and Theatrical Ghosts - The Staging of Illusion across Time and Cultures (Hardcover)
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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 belief systems of
their original audiences and the conditions of theatrical
production. As illusions of illusions, they foreground many
dramatic themes common to a wide variety of periods and cultures.
Arranged chronologically, this collection examines how ghosts
represent political change in Athenian culture in three plays by
Aeschylus; their function in traditional Japanese drama; the
staging of the supernatural in the dramatic liturgy of the early
Middle Ages; ghosts within the dramatic works of Middleton, George
Peele, and Christopher Marlowe, and the technologies employed in
the 18th and 19th centuries to represent the supernatural on stage.
Coverage of the dramatic representation of ghosts in the 20th and
21st centuries includes studies of Noël Coward’s Blithe Spirit,
August Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle, plays by Sam Shepard, David
Mamet, and Sarah Ruhl, Paddy Chayefsky’s The Tenth Man,
Suzan-Lori Parks’ Topdog/Underdog, and the spectral imprint of
Shakespeare’s ghosts in the Irish drama of Marina Carr, Martin
McDonagh, William Butler Yeats, and Samuel Beckett. The volume
closes by examining three contemporary American indigenous plays by
Anishinaabe author, Alanis King.
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