The Routledge Companion to Theatre-Fiction

ISBN-13: 9781032069906 / Angielski

Graham Wolfe

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What roles has theatre played in novels, and what happens to novels when they collaborate with theatre? This Companion’s thirty chapters explore the remarkable array of novelists who have entered theatre through their fiction, setting stages on their pages and casting actors, directors and playwrights as their characters.

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Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

Introduction: When Novels Turn to Theatre

Graham Wolfe

Curtain Raiser: The Comic Romance of Theatre and Novel

Graham Wolfe

Part I. Theatre-Fictional Histories and Hauntings

1. Theatre-Fiction-History: The Personal and Professional Industry of Theatre in Roja's  El viaje entretenido

Lisa Jackson-Schebetta

2. "The Archive in the Fiction": A Look into the Interiority of Classical Theatre

Odai Johnson

3. Echoes of Theatre Past: Blasco Ibañez’s El comediante Fonseca and Cozarinsky’s El rufián moldavo

Stefano Boselli

4. Ghosting in James’s The Tragic Muse: The Haunted Body and the Haunted House

Sophie Stringfellow

5. The Stage Properties of Willa Cather’s Theatre-Fiction

Kevin Riordan

6. Spectral Effects: Dual Roles, Doubling, and Invisibility in Robertson Davies’s World of Wonders

Katrina Dunn

Part II. Theatre-Fiction, Form, and Style

7. Mishima Yukio’s "Onnagata" as a Shingeki Theatre-Fiction: "Amalgamation" of the Theatrical and the Literary in a Kabuki-World Tale

Maki Isaka

8. Elegy for a Lost World: Reading Syed Mustafa Siraj’s Mayamridanga as Theatre-Fiction

Tamalika Roy

9. "What Does it Matter—the Plot?": "Sapphic" and Theatrical Reading Strategies in Ronald Firbank’s Vainglory, Inclinations, and Caprice

John R. Severn

10. Theatre-Fiction in the Present Tense: Reflections on Temporality and the Other in Margaret Atwood’s Hag-Seed and Eleanor Catton’s The Rehearsal

Alexandra Ksenofontova

11. Method Acting, the Narrator, and the Figure of the Doppelganger in The Confessions of Edward Day

Roweena Yip

12. "No Curtains": Generic Divides and Ethical Connections in Ian McEwan’s Atonement

Cara Hersh

13. Making a Scene: The Craft of Writing Theatre-Fiction

A Dialogue Between Mona Awad and Jessica Riley

Part III. Performing Selfhood and Authorship through Theatre-Fiction

14. Dorothy Leighton’s Disillusion and New Woman Experimentation

Renata Kobetts Miller

15. "I Sniff at a Red Artificial Geranium": Theatre, the Senses and the Self in Colette’s novel The Vagabond

William McEvoy

16. "A Real Actress": Theatre and Selfhood in Antonia White’s Frost in May Quartet

Frances Babbage

17. "Does it Have to be a Play?" Autofiction as Theatrical Failure in Sheila Heti’s How Should a Person Be?

Chloe R. Green

18. Mikhail Bulgakov’s Black Snow: Getting First-Personal with Stanislavski

Graham Wolfe

Part IV. Theatre-Fiction and Young People

19. Playing and Scripting the Past while Imagining Futures in Charlotte Yonge’s 1864 Historical Dramas

Heather Fitzsimmons Frey

20. "A few Scenes of Humble Life": Theatre-making in the Novels of Louisa May Alcott

Karen Quigley

21. "Closer to Being Grown Up than Ever Before": Theatre as a Site of Passage in Children’s Fiction

Stephanie Tillotson

22. "A Theatre, that’s No Drawing Room, nor is it a House on a Raft": Discovering Theatre in Moominsummer Madness

Deniz Başar

23. The Bildungsroman Goes to Acting School

Chris Hay

24. Stage Struck: Theatre as Vocation in Penelope Fitzgerald’s At Freddie’s

Sheila Rabillard

Part V. Theatre-Fiction, Asymmetries, and Antitheatricalities

25. Theatre-Stories in Early Modern China

Mei Chun

26. Against Anti-Theatricality: The Stage as Respectable Profession in Florence Marryat’s Theatre-Novels

Catherine Quirk

27. Affect in the Theatre-Novel: Performing Shame(lessness) in Wilkie Collins’s No Name

Anja Hartl

28. "Waiting in the Wings": The Economics and Ethereality of Theatrical Space in Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus

Rachael Newberry

29. Spectatorship and Myth: Zola’s Theatre Episodes in The Kill and Nana

Juliana Starr

30. Theatrical Extraneity: John Irving’s A Prayer for Owen Meany and Dickensian Theatre-Fiction

Graham Wolfe

Selected List of Theatre-Fiction

Index

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Graham Wolfe is Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the National University of Singapore. His monograph, Theatre-Fiction in Britain from Henry James to Doris Lessing, was published by Routledge in 2020, and his articles have appeared in journals including Modern Drama, Mosaic, Adaptation, and Performance Research.