The novel by that title is a rewriting of Goethe’s Faust and to a lesser extent of Marlowe’s Dr.Faustus, which brings to mind their present-day emulators. The protagonist’s guide here is a character named Ghost (a ‘spectre of wholeness’) who helps him revise the past ‘from the ruled or apparently eclipsed side of humanity’ and does so ‘in an infinite rehearsal of a play of the birth of history’. The Infinite Rehearsal is an autobiography of a fictional character, Robin Redbreast Glass. The novel interweaves passages from Harris' earlier novels with allusions from such writers as T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, Joseph Conrad, and William Shakespeare.