TY  - BOOK
AU  - Desmet,Christy
AU  - Williams,Anne
TI  - Shakespearean Gothic
T2  - Gothic Literary Studies
SN  - 9780708322628
AV  - PR2976 .S535 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Cardiff
PB  - University of Wales Press
KW  - Literature
KW  - Gothic literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; List of Contributors; Introduction; Reading Walpole Reading Shakespeare; Ann Radcliffe, 'The Shakespeare of Romance Writers'; The Curse of Shakespeare; Shakespearean Shadows' Parodic Haunting of ThomasLove Peacock's Nightmare Abbey and Jane Austen'sNorthanger Abbey; Fatherly and Daughterly Pursuits:Mary Shelley's Matildaand Shakespeare's King Lear; Into the Madman's Dream: the Gothic Abduction ofRomeo and Juliet; Gothic Cordelias: the Afterlife of King Lear and theConstruction of Femininity; 'We are not safe':History, Fear and the Gothic inRichard III; Remembering Ophelia: EllenTerry and theShakespearizing of Dracula'Rites of Memory': the Heart of Kenneth Branagh'sHamlet; Afterword: Shakespearean Gothic; Bibliography; Index; 2; b
N2  - 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 as justification for early Gothic writers' fascination with the supernatural, their abandoning of literary "decorum," and their fascination with otherness and extremes of every kind
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