........................................................................................................................................... ii Acknowledgments ......................................................................................................................... iii Table of Contents .......................................................................................................................... iv List of Figures ................................................................................................................................. vi Preface ............................................................................................................................................ vii 1
Introduction: Speaking of Ghosts ........................................................................................... 1 1.1
Purpose, Method, Definitions ......................................................................................... 1 1.2
Talking Ghosts: On Ghost Stories and Criticism ....................................................... 26 2
How to Tell A Ghost Story .................................................................................................... 45 2.1
Field Survey: A Brief History of Ghost Stories and the Theatre ............................... 45 2.2
Major Argument: About Telling Ghost Stories .......................................................... 52 2.3
Speaking of Ghosts: Conor McPherson’s The Weir ................................................... 61 2.4
An Irish Gothic: Marina Carr’s By the Bog of Cats... ................................................. 76 2.5
Staging South African Photography and the Ghost of Sizwe Banzi ......................... 90 2.6
A Haunting Machine: Theatrical Technologies and Samuel Beckett’s Shades ..... 108 2.7
Haunting Oceans, Mourning Languages: J.M. Synge and Derek Walcott ............ 135 3
Witness to Ghosts ................................................................................................................. 155 3.1
Field Survey: Transnational Poetics and the Globalgothic ..................................... 155 3.2
Major Argument: Voice, Medium, Rhythm, and the Poetry of Dead Metaphors162 3.3
Eavan Boland and the Haunted Chorus .................................................................... 187 3.4
Breyten Breytenbach and the Afrikaans Gothic ....................................................... 209 3.5
Nohow On from Here: Samuel Beckett’s Worsening Writings .............................. 235 3.6
Scholia on a Case Study: Imagining the Zong ........................................................... 259