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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... genius— but not of Shakespeare's magnitude' (Walpole 1968: 45). In his account ofthe processof eighteenthcentury century adaptations of Shakespeare Michael Dobson observes that Shakespeare'senhanced status providednew incentivesfor.
... genius,and from educationallthat itcould bestow;to these were added,anoble independency ofspirit, a feelingheart, and manners, which partook ofa happymixture ofdignity andsweetness' (Radcliffe 1986: 190).For Adeline, canonical ...
... genius ofthe language, more perhaps thanthe genius of the people, if,indeed,that distinction may beallowed, occasioned this. She frequently took a volume ofShakespeare or Milton,and, having gained some wild eminence, wouldseat herself ...
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