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THEATRE AND THE MACABRE.

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Theatre and the Macabre explores the morbid and gruesome onstage, from freak shows to the French Grand Guignol, from immersive theatre to dark tourism, stopping along the way to look at phantoms, severed heads, dances of death and dismembered bodies.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Conti, Meredith (Editor), Wetmore, Kevin J., Jr., 1969- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: CARDIFF : UNIV OF WALES PRESS, 2022.
Series:Horror studies.
Subjects:
Freak shows.
Horror plays.
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contributors
  • Introduction: I Made the Dance of Death
  • Part One: Histories of the Macabre
  • 1. The Mortification of Harvey Leach
  • 2. The Horrors of the Great War on the London Stage
  • 3. Phantoms of the Stage
  • Part Two: Dramaturgies of the Macabre
  • 4. Time and Punishment
  • 5. The Body Dismembered
  • 6. Macabre Children on the Australian Stage
  • 7. Martin McDonagh's Hangmen
  • 8. Fear of Death and Lyrical Flight
  • Part Three: Staging the Macabre
  • 9. The Severed Head on Stage.
  • 10. Dancing Haunted Legacies
  • 11. 'To Die Over and Over Inside My Body'
  • Part Four: The Immersive Macabre
  • 12. 'Black and Deep Desires'
  • 13. The Dark Ride Immersive and the Danse Macabre
  • 14. Liveness and Aliveness
  • 15. American Hells
  • 16. Haunting the Stage
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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