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
Biography
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.
