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Shakespearean gothic /
This book explores the paradox that the Gothic (today's werewolves, vampires, and horror movies) owe their origins (and their legitimacy) to eighteenth-century interpretations of Shakespeare. As Shakespeare was being established as the supreme British writer throughout the century, he was cited...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cardiff :
University of Wales Press,
2009.
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| Colección: | Gothic literary studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Reading Walpole reading Shakespeare
- 2. Ann Radcliffe: 'The Shakespeare of romance writers'
- 3. The Curse of Shakespeare
- 4. Shakespearean shadows' Parodic haunting of Thomas Love Peacock's Nightmare Abbey and Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey
- 5. Fatherly and daughterly pursuits:Mary Shelley's Matilda and Shakespeare's King Lear
- 6. Into the madman's dream: the gothic abduction of Romeo and Juliet
- 7. Gothic Cordelias: the afterlife of King Lear and the construction of femininity
- 8. 'We are not safe':history, fear and the gothic in Richard III
- 9. Remembering Ophelia: EllenTerry and the Shakespearizing of Dracula
- 10. 'Rites of memory': the heart of Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet;
- Afterword: Shakespearean Gothic.