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Contemporary Gothic Drama: Attraction, Consummation and Consumption on the Modern British Stage

Contemporary Gothic Drama: Attraction, Consummation and Consumption on the Modern British Stage

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Series: Palgrave Gothic

AnthropologyFilm StudiesTheater History

ISBN10: 1349959316
ISBN13: 9781349959310
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Dec 10 2019
Pages: 266
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
1. Introduction: Gothic theatricality/the theatrical Gothic.- Part I. Attractions.- 2. The Call of the Cthonic: from Titus Andronicus to X, David Ian Rabey.- 3. Death, Decay and Domesticity: The Corpse as Pivotal Stage Presence in Howard Barker's Dead Hands, Lara Kipp.- 4. Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman and the Postmodern Gothic, Catherine Rees.- Part II. Consummation.- 5. Staging Angela Carter, Frances Babbage.- 6. Little Monsters: Gothic Children and Contemporary Theatrical Performance, Kelly Jones.- 7. Uncanny Audio: The Place and Use of Sound in Gothic Performance, Richard J. Hand.- 8. The Phan-dom of the Opera: Gothic Fan Cultures and Intertextual Otherness, Adam Rush.- Part III. Consumption.- 9. 'I hate this job': Guiding Ripper Tours in the East End, Emma McEvoy.- 10. 'The Outcast Dead': Performance, Memory and Sites of Mourning at Cross Bones Graveyard, Clare Nally.- 11. Playing in the Dark: Possession and Performance, Robert Dean.- 12. Staging the Séance: The Spirit Medium and the Gothic in Modern Theatre, Benjamin Poore.- 13. Coda: Writing the Ghost: An interview with playwright Michael Punter, Benjamin Poore.

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