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Contents Dark Matter: An Introduction 1 1 How to Do Things with Demons: Conjuring Performatives in Doctor Faustus 16 2 Quantum Mechanicals: Desiring Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream 38 3 Unmasking Women: The Rover and Sexual Signification on the Restoration Stage 66 4 Unbecoming Acts: Power, Performance, and the Self-Consuming Body in Tennessee Williams’s Suddenly Last Summer 90 5 Bugs in the Mind: The Archbishop’s Ceiling and Arthur Miller’s Prismatic Drama 104 6 Invisible Wounds: Rehearsing Trauma on the Contemporary Stage 117 Notes 147 Glossary 201 Index 205 ...