Introduction 1. Periscopes into the theatre 2. Nationalism and national character 3. Genre: the realism of fantasy, the fantasy of realism 4. Acting, histrionics, and dissimulation 5. Transvestites, lovers, monsters: character and sexuality 6. Setting: where and elsewhere 7. Gothic and anti-Gothic: comedy and horror 8. Blue-Beard's castle: mischief and misogyny 9. Vampires in kilts.
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