"All the World's a Stage": Dramatic Sensibility in Mary Shelley's NovelsThis 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. |
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Contents
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 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | "All the World's a Stage": Dramatic Sensibility in Mary Shelley's Novels Volume 9 of Studies in major literary authors : outstanding dissertations Volume 9 of Studies in major literary authors |
| Author | Charlene E. Bunnell |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Psychology Press, 2002 |
| ISBN | 0415938635, 9780415938631 |
| Length | 212 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Reference |
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