Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-233) and index.
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Introduction / John Drakakis -- Shakespeare's nocturnal world / Elisabeth Bronfen -- Shakespeare among the Goths / Steven Craig -- Gothic and the ghost of Hamlet / Dale Townshend -- The scene of a crime : fictions of authority in Walpole's 'Gothic Shakespeare' / Sue Chaplin -- In search of Arden : Ann Radcliffe's William Shakespeare / Angela Wright -- Gothic Shakespeare on the romantic stage / Michael Gamer and Robert Miles -- Theatres of blood : Shakespeare and the horror film / Peter Hutchings -- 'As one dead' : Romeo and Juliet in the 'twilight' zone / Glennis Byron -- Gothspeare and the origins of cultural studies / Fred Botting and Scott Wilson -- Afterword / Jerrold E. Hogle.
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Looking particularly, though not exclusively, at the rise of gothic fiction in the 18th century, the contributors argue that without Shakespeare as a point of reference the gothic mode in fiction and drama may not have evolved in the way it did.
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Shakespeare, William,1564-1616-- Criticism and interpretation.
Shakespeare, William,1564-1616-- Influence.
Shakespeare, William-- Studies-- Influence.
Shakespeare, William,1564-1616-- analys och tolkning.