Hideous Progenies: Dramatizations of "Frankenstein" from the Nineteenth Century to the Present

Steven Earl Forry

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 1990

Hideous Progenies

Dramatizations of "Frankenstein" from the Nineteenth Century to the Present

Steven Earl Forry

In the series Anniversary Collection

https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512802030

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About this book

In Hideous Progenies, Steven Earl Forry offers a historical overview of the transformation over time of the Frankenstein legend—beginning with Shelley's original and the earliest popular dramatizations of it and continuing on through the advent of cinema.

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Steven Earl Forry is Public Affairs Manager at Squibb Corporation in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	VII
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	IX
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XIII
I. Historical Introduction
1. Melodrama and Burlesque: 1823–1832 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
2. Frankenstein Amid the Populace: Victorian Renderings of Shelley's Novel, 1832-1900 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
3. Reviving Frankenstein in the Twentieth Century: Drama and Cinema, 1900–1930 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
4. Afterword and List of Plays, 1821-1986 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
II. The Plays
Textual Note Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
Presumption; or, The Fate of Frankenstein (1823) Richard Brinsley Peake Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
Another Piece of Presumption (1823) Richard Brinsley Peake Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Frank-in-Steam; or, The Modern Promise to Pay (1824) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Henry M. Milner Frankenstein; or, The Man and the Monster (1826) Henry M. Milner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
The Monster and Magician; or, The Fate of Frankenstein (1826) John Atkinson Kerr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Frankenstein; or, The Model Man (1849) Richard Brough and Barnabas Brough Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Frankenstein (1930) John Balderston Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Appendix: Music from Vampire’s Victim (1887)
Frankenstein; or, The Vampire’s Victim (1887) Richard Butler and H. Chance Newton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Edition: Reprint 2016
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 328
Illustrations
- Other: 31 illus.
Keywords: Literature; Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: November 11, 2016
ISBN: 9781512802030