The Castle Spectre as a Gothic play and Gothic Chapbook

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

The Castle Spectre as a Gothic play and Gothic Chapbook

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

This paper discusses one of the most popular Gothic plays, M. G. Lewis’s The Castle Spectre, and its chapbook adaptation by Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson titled The Castle Spectre, An Ancient Baronial Romance (1820). Lewis’s play was hugely popular at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and is seen by critics as a “masterpiece” of the genre. Wilkinson in her redaction tried to capitalize on the success of the drama, preserving the narrative line of the main plot but reducing the role of comic characters, music and lighting, which are prominent in Lewis’s play. To court the lower-class readers, Wilkinson refers to the uncorrupted life of peasants compared to the debased manners of upper classes. The ending of the chapbook story is reassuringly domestic; while Lewis’s play ends by the death of the villain and praise for the victory of justice and virtue, Wilkinson concludes with the happy marriage of the main characters and disappearance of the protective ghost. This positive ending with a didactic purpose promotes the domestic bliss of characters and restoration of order destroyed by family feud.

Název v anglickém jazyce

The Castle Spectre as a Gothic play and Gothic Chapbook

Popis výsledku anglicky

This paper discusses one of the most popular Gothic plays, M. G. Lewis’s The Castle Spectre, and its chapbook adaptation by Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson titled The Castle Spectre, An Ancient Baronial Romance (1820). Lewis’s play was hugely popular at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and is seen by critics as a “masterpiece” of the genre. Wilkinson in her redaction tried to capitalize on the success of the drama, preserving the narrative line of the main plot but reducing the role of comic characters, music and lighting, which are prominent in Lewis’s play. To court the lower-class readers, Wilkinson refers to the uncorrupted life of peasants compared to the debased manners of upper classes. The ending of the chapbook story is reassuringly domestic; while Lewis’s play ends by the death of the villain and praise for the victory of justice and virtue, Wilkinson concludes with the happy marriage of the main characters and disappearance of the protective ghost. This positive ending with a didactic purpose promotes the domestic bliss of characters and restoration of order destroyed by family feud.

Druh

J_ost - Ostatní články v recenzovaných periodicích

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60200 - Languages and Literature

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2020

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Hradec Králové Journal of Anglophone Studies

ISSN

2336-3347

e-ISSN

2571-032X

Svazek periodika

2020

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

CZ - Česká republika

Počet stran výsledku

10

Strana od-do

12-21

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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