Shakespearean Gothic / edited by Christy Desmet and Anne Williams.

Other author Desmet, Christy, 1954-2018
Other author Williams, Anne, 1947-
Format Book
Publication InfoCardiff : University of Wales Press, 2009.
Descriptionviii, 286 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subjects

SeriesGothic literary studies
Gothic literary studies. ^A1011088
Contents Part 1, Gothic appropriations of 'Shakespeare'. Reading Walpole reading Shakespeare / Anne Williams; Ann Radcliffe, 'the Shakespeare of romance writers' / Rictor Norton; The curse of Shakespeare / Jeffrey Kahan -- Part 2, Rewriting Shakespeare's plays and characters. Shakespearean shadows ' parodic haunting of Thomas Love Peacock's Nightmare Abbey and Jane Austen's / Northanger Abbey, Marjean D. Purinton and Marliss C. Desens; Fatherly and daughterly 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 femininity / Diane Long Hoeveler -- Part 3, Shakespeare as gothic writer. 'We are not safe': history, fear and the gothic in Richard III / Jessica Walker; Remembering Ophelia: Elle Terry and the Shakespearizing of Dracula / Christy Desmet; 'Rites of memory': the heart of Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet / Susan Allen Ford.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN0708320937 (hbk.)
ISBN9780708320938 (hbk.)
ISBN0708320929 (pbk.)
ISBN9780708320921 (pbk.)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks PR2976 .S53 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold