The Routledge Companion to Theatre-Fiction

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 Ibanez's El comediante Fonseca and Cozarinsky's El rufian 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 Basar

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