Dramatic Apparitions and Theatrical Ghosts

Ann C. Hall is a Professor in the Department of Comparative Humanities at the University of Louisville, USA. She is the author of Phantom Variations: The Adaptations of Gaston Leroux’s Phantom of the Opera, 1925 to the Present (2009) and A Kind of Alaska: Women in the Plays of Eugene O’Neill, Harold Pinter, and Sam Shepard (1993). She is currently the President of the International Harold Pinter Society and editor of The Harold Pinter Review. Alan Nadel 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: The Theatre of August Wilson (Methuen Drama, 2018), Demographic Angst: Cultural Narratives and American Films of the 1950s (2017), Containment Culture (1995), and Invisible Criticism: Ralph Ellison and the American Canon (1994). He has also edited of two volumes of essays on August Wilson, August Wilson: Completing the 20th-Century Cycle (2010) and May All Your Fences Have Gates (1994).

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Summoning the Illusion Within the Illusion—An Introduction, Ann C. Hall (University of Louisville, USA) and Alan Nadel (University of Kentucky, USA)

1. Made of Anxiety: Two (or Three) Ghosts in Aeschylus, John Timpane (Independent scholar, USA)
2. A Theater of Ghosts: Spirits on the Traditional Japanese Stage, Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. (Loyola Marymount University, USA)
3. The Holiest of Ghosts: Staging the Supernatural in the Early Middle Ages, Andrew Rabin (University of Louisville, USA)
4. “I Am Not Here”: Staging the (Un)Dead and the Thresholds of Theatrical Performance, Christopher Salamone (University of Oxford, UK)
5. Creating Stage Ghosts: The Archeology of Spectral Illusion, Beth Kattelman (Lawrence and Lee Theater Research Institute, The Ohio State University, USA)
6. Blithe Spirit: A Spectral Anatomy of Astral Bigamy, Judith Roof (Independent scholar, USA)
7. The Ghost of Unrequited Love Possesses the Modern Heart: Paddy Chayefsky’s Dybbuk in The Tenth Man, Ben Furnish (Haskell Indian Nations University, USA)
8. Of Outlaws and Spirits: Sam Shepard’s Fool for Love (1983) and David Mamet’s Prairie du Chien (1979) and The Shawl (1985), Ann C. Hall (University of Louisville, USA)
9. Literal Ghosts, Figurative Humanity, and the Specter of Capitalism in August Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle, Alan Nadel (University of Kentucky, USA)
10. “All Spooked Out”: Topdog/Underdog’s Ghosts, Jennifer Larson (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
11. Deficient Visitations: Staging Ghostliness and Irishness in Martin McDonagh’s Comedy, Craig N. Owens (Drake University, USA)
12. Holding the Dead Close: The Comfort of Ghosts in the Plays of Sarah Ruhl, Amy Muse (University of St. Thomas, USA)
13. Anishinaabe, Dakhota, and Nimiipuu Hauntings in the Indigenous Drama of Alanis King, LeAnne Howe, and Beth Piatote, Margaret Noodin (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, USA)

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