![]() Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Introduction of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at It has been made available under a Creative Commons AttributionNon-Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. With the exception of the Introduction, no part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. com/Routledge-Advances-in-Theatre-Performance-Studies/book-series/ RATPS Techniques of Illusion A Cultural and Media History of Stage Magic in the Late Nineteenth Century Katharina Rein LONDON AND NEW YORK First published 2023 by Routledge 4 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2023 Katharina Rein The right of Katharina Rein to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Performance Cultures as Epistemic Cultures, Volume I (Re)Generating Knowledges in Performance Erika Fischer-Lichte, Torsten Jost, Milos Kosic, Astrid Schenka Performance Cultures as Epistemic Cultures, Volume II Interweaving Epistemologies Erika Fischer-Lichte, Torsten Jost, Milos Kosic, Astrid Schenka Politics of the Oberammergau Passion Play Tradition as Trademark Julia Stenzel and Jan Mohr Beyoncé and Beyond 2013–2016 Naila Keleta-Mae Reconstructing Performance Art Practices of Historicisation, Documentation and Representation Tancredi Gusman For more information about this series, please visit. Considering theatre and performance alongside topics such as religion, politics, gender, race, ecology, and the avant-garde, titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics. ![]() Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies This series is our home for cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections. Katharina Rein currently works as a Lecturer in European Media Studies at the University of Potsdam, Germany. ![]() This exploration will be of great interest to students and scholars in theatre and performance studies. These close readings are completed by writings focusing on visual media and expanding the scope backwards and forwards in time, roughly to 1800 and to 2000. This study provides close readings highlighting four paradigmatic illusions of the time that stand in for different kinds of illusions typical of stage magic in the “golden age” and analyses them within their cultural and mediahistorical context: “Pepper’s Ghost,” the archetypical mirror illusion “The Vanishing Lady,” staging a teleportation in a time of a dizzying acceleration of transport “the levitation,” simulating weightlessness with the help of an extended steel machinery and “The Second Sight,” a mind-reading illusion using up-to-date communication technologies. Techniques of Illusion This book explores stage conjuring during its “golden age,” from about 1860 to 1910.
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