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Shakespearean Gothic / Christy Desmet and Anne Williams.

  • Accession number

    83438912

  • Class

    62/DES

  • ISBN

    9780708320921 (pbk.), 0708320929 (pbk.), 9780708320938 (hbk.), 0708320937 (hbk.)

  • Language

    English

  • Physical description

    192 p., [8] p. of plates ; 22 cm.

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Bibliography, etc. note: Includes bibliography and index. Formatted contents note: Reading Walpole reading Shakespeare / Anne Williams --- Ann Radcliffe, "The Shakespeare of Romantic writers" / Rictor Norton -- The curse of Shakespeare / Jeffrey Kahan -- Shakespearean shadows' parodic haunting of Thomas Love Peacock's Nightmare Abbey and Jane Austens's Northanger Abbey / Marjean D. Purinton and Marliss C. Desens -- Fatherly and daufggterly pursuits: Mary Shelley's Matilda and Shakespeare's King Lear / Carolyn A. Weber -- Into the madman's dream: the Gothic abduction of Romeo and Juliet / Yael Shapira -- Gothic Cordelias: the afterlife of King Lear and the construction of feminity / Diane Long Hoeveler. UK-SuSCL "We are not safe": history, fear and the Gothic in Richard III / Jessica Walker -- Remembering Ophelia: Ellen Terry and the Shakespearizing of Dracula / Christ Desmet -- "Rites of memory" : the heart of Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet / Susan Allen Ford -- Afterword: Shakespearean Gothic. UK-SuSCL Summary, etc: Discusses appropriations of Shakespeare, rewriting Shakespeare's plays and characters, and Shakespeare as Gothic writer.