Theatre and the macabre. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr., Meredith Conti.
• Editors: Jr, Wetmore, Kevin J, 1969-; Conti, Meredith
• Contents: Acknowledgements ContributorsIntroduction: I Made the Dance of Death - Meredith Conti Part I. Histories of the Macabre The Mortification of Harvey Leach: Humour and Horror in Nineteenth-Century Theatre of Disability - Michael M. ChemersThe Horrors of the Great War on the London Stage: The Grand Guignol Season of 1915 - Helen E.M. BrooksPhantoms of the Stage: The History and Practice of Uncanny Apparitions - Richard J. HandPart II. Dramaturgies of the Macabre Time and Punishment: Gothic Maternal Bodies on the Contemporary British Stage - Kelly JonesThe Body Dismembered: Allegory and Modernity in German Trauerspiel - Magda Romanska Macabre Children on the Australian Stage: Angela Betzien’s Cycle of Crime Plays - Chris Hay and Stephen Carleton Martin McDonagh’s Hangmen: Justice and Guilt in Public and Private Acts of Hanging - Michelle C. PaullFear of Death and Lyrical Flight: Mortality Salience Mediation in Fun Home - Christopher J. StaleyPart III. Staging the Macabre The Severed Head on Stage - Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.Dancing Haunted Legacies: Diana Szeinblum’s Alaska- Jeanmarie Higgins‘To Die Over and Over Inside My Body’: Three Deaths in Hijikata Tatsumi’s Butoh - J. E. F. OoiPart IV. The Immersive Macabre ‘Black and Deep Desires’: Sleep No More and the Immersive Macabre - Dan VenningThe Dark Ride Immersive and the Danse Macabre - David BisahaLiveness and Aliveness: Chasing the Uncanny in the Contemporary Haunt Industry - David NorrisAmerican Hells: Hell Houses, Abortion Frames, and Unsexed Women - Robyn Lee HornHaunting the Stage: Macabre Tourism, Lieux de Mémoire, and the Immortal Death of Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre - Meredith Conti Bibliography Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Cardiff : University of Wales Press
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 792; Horror plays
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781786838476; 9781786838469
• Related ISBNs: 9781786838452
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