Routledge Companion to Theatre-Fiction

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.

• AcknowledgementsList of ContributorsIntroduction: When Novels Turn to Theatre Graham WolfeCurtain Raiser: The Comic Romance of Theatre and NovelGraham WolfePart I. Theatre-Fictional Histories and Hauntings1. Theatre-Fiction-History: The Personal and Professional Industry of Theatre in Roja's El viaje entretenidoLisa Jackson-Schebetta2. "The Archive in the Fiction": A Look into the Interiority of Classical Theatre Odai Johnson3. Echoes of Theatre Past: Blasco Ibañez’s El comediante Fonseca and Cozarinsky’s El rufián moldavoStefano Boselli4. Ghosting in James’s The Tragic Muse: The Haunted Body and the Haunted HouseSophie Stringfellow5. The Stage Properties of Willa Cather’s Theatre-FictionKevin Riordan6. Spectral Effects: Dual Roles, Doubling, and Invisibility in Robertson Davies’s World of WondersKatrina DunnPart II. Theatre-Fiction, Form, and Style7. Mishima Yukio’s "Onnagata" as a Shingeki Theatre-Fiction: "Amalgamation" of the Theatrical and the Literary in a Kabuki-World TaleMaki Isaka8. Elegy for a Lost World: Reading Syed Mustafa Siraj’s Mayamridanga as Theatre-FictionTamalika Roy9. "What Does it Matter—the Plot?": "Sapphic" and Theatrical Reading Strategies in Ronald Firbank’s Vainglory, Inclinations, and CapriceJohn 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 Ksenofontova11. Method Acting, the Narrator, and the Figure of the Doppelganger in The Confessions of Edward Day Roweena Yip12. "No Curtains": Generic Divides and Ethical Connections in Ian McEwan’s AtonementCara Hersh13. Making a Scene: The Craft of Writing Theatre-FictionA Dialogue Between Mona Awad and Jessica RileyPart III. Performing Selfhood and Authorship through Theatre-Fiction14. 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 VagabondWilliam McEvoy16. "A Real Actress": Theatre and Selfhood in Antonia White’s Frost in May QuartetFrances Babbage17. "Does it Have to be a Play?" Autofiction as Theatrical Failure in Sheila Heti’s How Should a Person Be?Chloe R. Green18. Mikhail Bulgakov’s Black Snow: Getting First-Personal with Stanislavski Graham WolfePart IV. Theatre-Fiction and Young People19. Playing and Scripting the Past while Imagining Futures in Charlotte Yonge’s 1864 Historical Dramas Heather Fitzsimmons Frey20. "A few Scenes of Humble Life": Theatre-making in the Novels of Louisa May AlcottKaren Quigley 21. "Closer to Being Grown Up than Ever Before": Theatre as a Site of Passage in Children’s FictionStephanie Tillotson22. "A Theatre, that’s No Drawing Room, nor is it a House on a Raft": Discovering Theatre in Moominsummer MadnessDeniz Başar23. The Bildungsroman Goes to Acting SchoolChris Hay 24. Stage Struck: Theatre as Vocation in Penelope Fitzgerald’s At Freddie’sSheila Rabillard Part V. Theatre-Fiction, Asymmetries, and Antitheatricalities25. Theatre-Stories in Early Modern ChinaMei Chun 26. Against Anti-Theatricality: The Stage as Respectable Profession in Florence Marryat’s Theatre-NovelsCatherine Quirk 27. Affect in the Theatre-Novel: Performing Shame(lessness) in Wilkie Collins’s No NameAnja Hartl28. "Waiting in the Wings": The Economics and Ethereality of Theatrical Space in Angela Carter’s Nights at the CircusRachael Newberry 29. Spectatorship and Myth: Zola’s Theatre Episodes in The Kill and NanaJuliana Starr30. Theatrical Extraneity: John Irving’s A Prayer for Owen Meany and Dickensian Theatre-FictionGraham WolfeSelected List of Theatre-FictionIndex