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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... in which the Gothic engages in a complex dialogue with Shakespeare, often through the use of quotation, citation andanalogy the extenttowhich therelationship between Shakespeare and the Gothic requires aradicalreappraisal in thelight of ...
... inwhich one kind of languageis 'internally dialogized' as partof a narrative. Indeed, Jane Austenwas herselfthebutt of occasionalirony asGothic writing itselfwrote back. In Charles Maturin'sMelmoth the Wanderer (1820), Chapter35 begins ...
... inwhich weinterpretthe epithet 'Gothic'. It is,as Coleridge adumbrates, ameansof describinga particular style 'ofEuropean architecture and ornament that flourished from the latetwelfth to the fifteenth century';butitisalso, inaliterary ...
... inwhich the writer acknowledges the 'novelty' of his enterprize, along with his 'passions strong',his 'hasty nature' and his 'graceless form and dwarfishstature' (Lewis 1973: 4).More importantly,he castigates hisown inadequaciesin ...
... in which Manichean forms of goodand evil are distributed. Forexample, the deployment ofepigraphs from Chapters 4,6and7of The Romanceofthe Forest invokesmetaphors of decay,the shadows of the supernaturally horrificandthehorror of the ...