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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Desmet, Christy, 1954-2018 (Editor), Williams, Anne (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2009.
Series:Gothic literary studies.
Subjects:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Criticism and interpretation.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616
Shakespeare, William.
Gothic literature > History and criticism.
Littérature gothique > Histoire et critique.
DRAMA > Shakespeare.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Shakespeare.
Gothic literature.
Rezeption
Gothic novel
Gothic novel.
Toneelstukken.
English.
Languages & Literatures.
English Literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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