Title Hideous Progenies : Dramatizations of "Frankenstein" from the Nineteenth Century to the Present / Steven Earl Forry

Published Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016] ©1990

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Description 1 online resource : 31 illustrations Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- I. Historical Introduction -- 1. Melodrama and Burlesque: 1823-1832 -- 2. Frankenstein Amid the Populace: Victorian Renderings of Shelley's Novel, 1832-1900 -- 3. Reviving Frankenstein in the Twentieth Century: Drama and Cinema, 1900-1930 -- 4. Afterword and List of Plays, 1821-1986 -- II. The Plays -- Textual Note -- Presumption; or, The Fate of Frankenstein (1823) -- Another Piece of Presumption (1823) -- Frank-in-Steam; or, The Modern Promise to Pay (1824) -- Henry M. Milner Frankenstein; or, The Man and the Monster (1826) -- The Monster and Magician; or, The Fate of Frankenstein (1826) -- Frankenstein; or, The Model Man (1849) -- Frankenstein (1930) -- Appendix: Music from Vampire's Victim (1887) -- Frankenstein; or, The Vampire's Victim (1887) -- Bibliography -- Index Summary In Hideous Progenies, Steven Earl Forry offers a historical overview of the legend of Frankenstein's transformation over time--beginning with Shelley's original and the earliest popular dramatizations of it and continuing on through the advent of cinema Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-306) and index Notes In English Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Dec. 09, 2016) digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851. Frankenstein. Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851 -- Adaptations Frankenstein, Victor (Fictitious character) -- Drama Frankenstein's Monster (Fictitious character) -- Drama SUBJECT Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851 fast Frankenstein, Victor (Fictitious character) fast Frankenstein's Monster (Fictitious character) fast Frankenstein Fiktive Gestalt gnd Shelley, Mary 1797-1851 Frankenstein gnd Frankenstein (Literarische Gestalt) swd Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft. Frankenstein. swd Frankenstein (Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft) fast Subject Frankenstein films -- History and criticism Horror plays -- History and criticism English drama -- 19th century. Scientists in literature. Monsters in literature. Scientists -- Drama Monsters -- Drama Horror plays. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Comparative Literature. English drama Frankenstein films Horror plays Monsters Monsters in literature Scientists Scientists in literature Dramatisierung Drama Englisch Film Verfilmung Englisch. Genre/Form Horror plays Adaptations Criticism, interpretation, etc. Drama Horror plays. Théâtre d'horreur. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781512802030 1512802034

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