'All the World's a Stage': Dramatic Sensibility in Mary Shelley's Novels

ISBN-13: 9780415938631 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 228 str.

Charlene Brunnell; Charlene E. Bunnell; C. Bunnell

Opis

This book examines the often tragic and nearly always disabling metaphor of thetheatrum mundi, world-as-stage, as it plays itself out in the characters of Mary Shelley's novels.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Roots of Mary Shelley’s Dramatic Sensibility; Chapter 3 Frankenstein: Storytelling as Dramatic Performance; Chapter 4 Mathilda: Life as Theatrical Production; Chapter 5 The Last Man: Autobiography as Drama; Chapter 6 Valperga: Theatrical Plots and Dramatic Intrigue; Chapter 7 Perkin Warbeck: Problematic Roles and Identities; Chapter 8 Lodore: Public Spectacle and Private Lives; Chapter 9 Falkner: The Illusion of Romance; Chapter 10 Conclusion;

O autorze

Charlene E. Bunnell