The drama of the double -- Narcissus and doubling: Conrad, Shepard, Mamet -- Narcissus and Dionysus: The Bacchae and The crying game -- Harold Pinter's Death in Venice and Life in Victoria Station -- Hedda Gabler, Jules and Jim and Taxi driver -- Orestes: Aeschylus and O'Neill -- Doubling in the mythic dreamscapes of Samuel Beckett's Happy days -- Not I, and Rockaby -- More on Demeter: Marsha Norman's 'night mother -- Oedipus and Demeter: Pinters A slight ache -- Coda