Gothic ShakespearesJohn Drakakis, Dale Townshend Routledge, 01/12/2008 - 261 páginas Readings of Shakespeare were both influenced by and influential in the rise of Gothic forms in literature and culture from the late eighteenth century onwards. Shakespeare’s plays are full of ghosts, suspense, fear-inducing moments and cultural anxieties which many writers in the Gothic mode have since emulated, adapted and appropriated. The contributors to this volume consider:
In Gothic Shakespeares, Shakespeare is considered alongside major Gothic texts and writers – from Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Lewis and Mary Shelley, up to and including contemporary Gothic fiction and horror film. This volume offers a highly original and truly provocative account of Gothic reformulations of Shakespeare, and Shakespeare’s significance to the Gothic. Contributors include: Fred Botting, Elizabeth Bronfen, Glennis Byron, Sue Chaplin, Steven Craig, John Drakakis, Michael Gamer, Jerrold Hogle, Peter Hutchings, Robert Miles, Dale Townshend, Scott Wilson and Angela Wright. |
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... Walpole's Castle of Otranto (2002)and Charlotte Smith's Manon L'Escaut and The Romance of Real Life (volume 1of Pickering andChatto'sWorks of Charlotte Smith). WithJeffrey Cox, hecoedited TheBroadview Anthology ofRomantic Drama. He also ...
... Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764),a text generally thought tohaveinitiated the genre, waspublished shortlybefore SamuelJohnson's editionof Shakespeare, andin his preface to the secondedition of 1765,Walpole cites the authority of ...
... Walpole's case, the wholesale dialogic encounter with one play asamodel) reinforces the canonical status of a writer whose dual identity inheres in an uncomfortableamalgamoftheliterary andthetheatrical.One means fora'popular ...
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