"Land of Apparitions": The Depiction of Ghosts and Other Supernatural Occurrences in the First Gothic Plays

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
"Land of Apparitions": The Depiction of Ghosts and Other Supernatural Occurrences in the First Gothic Plays
Original language description
The paper discusses one of the key features of the genre of gothic drama which reigned over the English stage during the latter part of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The gothic stage represented the psyche of the eighteenth century audience, namely their special delight in “exploiting mystery, gloom and terror”, as Bertrand Evans put it. Gothic dramatists strived to promote this prevailing public taste. Strong links between gothic drama and the gothic novel have been observed by many scholars. The gothic romances served as a source for playwrights and the detailed visual backgrounds were helpful in creating settings for the plays. Gothic novels were very often adapted for the stage. The nature of the depiction of supernatural events in these adaptations is worth attention since it illustrates the obvious differences between the gothic narrative and gothic drama.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2016
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
Dracula and the Gothic in Literature, Pop Culture and the Arts
ISBN
9789004306172
Number of pages of the result
20
Pages from-to
179-198
Number of pages of the book
346
Publisher name
Brill Rodopi
Place of publication
Leiden Boston
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