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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Antecedents and Beginnings | 16 |
The First Gothic Plays | 31 |
Full Development of Gothic Drama before 1792 | 72 |
Ann Radcliffe and Gothic Drama | 90 |
Gothic and German Drama | 116 |
Lewis and Gothic Drama | 132 |
Gothic Drama and Melodrama | 162 |
Gothic Acting Drama 18011816 | 177 |
A List of Gothic Plays | 239 |
Notes | 247 |
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