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1 online resource (262 pages) |
| Series |
Accents on Shakespeare, 10 |
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Accents on Shakespeare, 10
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| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; General editor's preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Shakespeare's nocturnal world; 3 Shakespeare Among the Goths; 4 Gothic and the ghost of Hamlet; 5 The scene of a crime: Fictions of authority in Walpole's 'Gothic Shakespeare'; 6 In search of Arden: Ann Radcli.e's William Shakespeare; 7 Gothic Shakespeare on the Romantic stage; 8 Theatres of blood: Shakespeare and the horror film; 9 'As one dead': Romeo and Juliet in the 'Twilight' zone; 10 Gothspeare and the origins of cultural studies |
| Summary |
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 Shakespeares significance to the Gothic |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Influence.
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| SUBJECT |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast |
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English fiction -- History and criticism
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English drama -- History and criticism
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Gothic revival (Literature) -- Great Britain
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English drama
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English fiction
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Gothic revival (Literature)
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Townshend, Dale
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| ISBN |
9780203885741 |
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0203885740 |
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