{"product_id":"dramatic-apparitions-and-theatrical-ghosts-the-staging-of-illusion-across-time-and-cultures-paperback","title":"Dramatic Apparitions and Theatrical Ghosts: The Staging of Illusion across Time and Cultures - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnn C. Hall\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eAlan Nadel\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGhosts 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Coverage of the dramatic representation of ghosts in the 20th and 21st centuries includes studies of Noël Coward's\u003ci\u003e Blithe Spirit\u003c\/i\u003e, August Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle, plays by Sam Shepard, David Mamet, and Sarah Ruhl, Paddy Chayefsky's \u003ci\u003eThe Tenth Man, \u003c\/i\u003eSuzan-Lori Parks'\u003ci\u003e Topdog\/Underdog\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnn C. Hall\u003c\/b\u003e is a Professor in the Department of Comparative Humanities at the University of Louisville, USA. She is the author of \u003ci\u003ePhantom Variations: The Adaptations of Gaston Leroux's Phantom of the Opera, 1925 to the Present \u003c\/i\u003e(2009) and \u003ci\u003eA Kind of Alaska: Women in the Plays of Eugene O'Neill, Harold Pinter, and Sam Shepard \u003c\/i\u003e(1993). She is currently the President of the International Harold Pinter Society and editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Harold Pinter Review\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlan Nadel\u003c\/b\u003e is William T. Bryan Chair in American Literature and Culture at the University of Kentucky, USA. He is the author of six books on post-WWII American literature, including: \u003ci\u003eThe Theatre of August Wilson \u003c\/i\u003e(Methuen Drama, 2018), \u003ci\u003eDemographic Angst: Cultural Narratives and American Films of the 1950s \u003c\/i\u003e(2017), \u003ci\u003eContainment Culture \u003c\/i\u003e(1995), and \u003ci\u003eInvisible Criticism: Ralph Ellison and the American Canon \u003c\/i\u003e(1994). He has also edited of two volumes of essays on August Wilson, \u003ci\u003eAugust Wilson: Completing the 20th-Century Cycle \u003c\/i\u003e(2010) and \u003ci\u003eMay All Your Fences Have Gates\u003c\/i\u003e (1994).\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.51 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 20, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43157197258815,"sku":"9781350371736","price":86.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/wqQPFg0hAg9781350371736.webp?v=1776978976","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/dramatic-apparitions-and-theatrical-ghosts-the-staging-of-illusion-across-time-and-cultures-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}