"All the World's a Stage": Dramatic Sensibility in Mary Shelley's NovelsPsychology Press, 2002 - 212 Seiten 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. |
Inhalt
Frankenstein Storytelling as Dramatic Performance | 35 |
Mathilda Life as Theatrical Production | 61 |
The Last Man Autobiography as Drama | 85 |
Valperga Theatrical Plots and Dramatic Intrigue | 109 |
Perkin Warbeck Problematic Roles and Identities | 131 |
Lodore Public Spectacle and Private Lives | 151 |
Falkner The Illusion of Romance | 167 |
Conclusion | 181 |
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