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As evidenced by the vampires, werewolves, and other frights overrunning the best-seller lists, the Gothic remains immensely popular. This collection of essays traces the roots of the Gothic to an unexpected source: eighteenth-century interpretations of Shakespeare. Through close attention to literary, cultural, and historical detail, the contributors demonstrate that even as Shakespeare was being established as the supreme British writer, he was also being cited as justification for early Gothic writers’ abandonment of literary decorum and their interest in the supernatural.

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This book offers many fresh ways of reading both Shakespeare's plays and the more entrenched Gothic novelsA . Sarah Pike, University of Stirling website

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Christy Desmet is Associate Professor of English, University of Georgia. Anne Williams is Professor of English, University of Georgia. Both have published extensively for University of Chicago Press, Routledge and Palgrave.

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