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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... popular extensions of the Gothic into many modern modes of representation. In Gothic Shakespeares, Shakespeare is considered alongside major Gothic texts andwriters—from Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Lewis andMary Shelley, up ...
... popular culture, national collections,the novel, pornography, authorshipand dramasof spectacle. Jerrold E. Hogle is Professor of English and University Distinguished Professor at the Universityof Arizona.Heis long noted forhis workon ...
... But thereis more to theengagement ofthe 'Gothic' with Shakespeare—andwith Milton, that othertowering 'literary' influenceonGothic writing—thansimplya question of legitimizing a particular form of what was, at the time, 'popular'
... popular' literary production. T h eGot h i c a n d 't h e G ot h ic' The 'political' interest in Shakespeare during the eighteenth century is multifaceted andisan important partof an evenlarger interest inwhat we mightcallthehistorical ...
... popular'literatureto assert itsowncredentialsisto align itselfwithotherformsofwritingwhose cultural capital has already beenestablished.AnnRadcliffe'sThe Romance of the Forest (1791)may have been nearer the forefrontof Jane Austen's ...