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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Antecedents and Beginnings | 16 |
Ann Radcliffe and Gothic Drama | 90 |
Gothic and German Drama | 116 |
Lewis and Gothic Drama | 132 |
OutlawThe Wood Daemon or One OClockLesser | 160 |
Gothic Acting Drama 18011816 | 177 |
CHAPTER PAGE | 200 |
Gothic Survival in Literary Drama | 216 |
A List of Gothic Plays | 239 |
Notes | 247 |
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acts adapted Adeline Adelmorn Agnes agony Alfonso Angela Ann Radcliffe appeared audience banditti Baron Bertram Boaden burlesque Byronic hero Castle of Otranto Castle Spectre cavern Cenci century chamber characters Charles Robert Maturin comic conventional Count of Narbonne countess Covent Garden dagger dark Die Räuber Douglas dramatists Drury Lane dungeon earlier Elizabethan English exploited father Fontainville Forest Genest German ghost gloom Gothic drama Gothic elements Gothic fiction Gothic literature Gothic materials Gothic novel Gothic plays Gothic playwrights Gothic Revival Gothic school Gothic tradition Gothic villain Gothicists haunted heroine horrific horror Ibid Joanna Joanna Baillie kind Lady Larpent later Leolyn light Lord Manfred marquis Maturin medieval melodrama midnight Monk motif Mysterious Mother night Orra Osmond passage past event Percy perhaps protagonist Radcliffe's remorse robbers romance Rosaline ruin scene Scott Secret Tribunal settings Sicilian Romance stage supernatural theme thou tion tower tragedy typical Gothic tyrant vaults Vimonda Walpole Walpole's wood