1. Introduction - John Drakakis 2. Shakespeare’s Nocturnal World - Elizabeth Bronfen 3. Shakespeare Among the Goths - Steven Craig 4. Gothic and the Ghost of Hamlet - Dale Townshend 5. The Scene of a Crime: Fiction of Authority in Walpole’s ‘Gothic Shakespeare’ - Sue Chaplin 6. In Search of Arden: Ann Radcliffe’s William Shakespeare - Angela Wright 7. Gothic Shakespeare on the Romantic Stage - Michael Gamer and Robert Miles 8. Theatres of Blood: Shakespeare and the Horror Film - Peter Hutchings 9. ‘As one dead’: Romeo and Juliet in the ‘Twilight’ zone - Glennis Byron 10. Gothspeare and the Origins of Cultural Studies - Fred Botting and Scott Wilson 11. Afterword - Jerrold Hogle
Biography
John Drakakis is Professor in the Department of English, University of Stirling. He has published articles, chapters and books on a wide variety of literature, drama, critical theory and cultural studies. He is also the series editor for Routledge's 'New Critical Idiom series'.
Dale Townshend is Lecturer in Gothic and Romantic Literature in the Department of English, University of Stirling. He has published many articles and co-edited several books on the Gothic.
'...[T]he book will most certainly be of use to Shakespearean and eighteenth-century scholars and is well worth the read. Gothic Shakespeares is a pioneering foray into a vast landscape of topics; hopefully further discussions will ensue.' - Peter Paolucci, York University
