This book argues that ideas first take shape in the human body, appearing on stage in new styles of performance.

Explores concepts of performance, modernity and progress by combining performance studies and historical research with contextualised readings of Synge's plays.

First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Theatre and Ghosts brings theatre and performance history into dialogue with the flourishing field of spectrality studies. Essays examine the histories and econ

As well as 'play-makers' and 'poets', playwrights of the early modern period were known as 'play-patchers' because their texts were made from separate documents