Publication details
“Land of Apparitions” The depiction of ghosts and other supernatural occurrences in the first gothic plays
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| Year of publication | 2012 |
| Type | Conference abstract |
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| Description | The paper discusses one of the key features of the genre of gothic drama which reigned over the English stage during the latter part of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The gothic stage represented the psyche of the eighteenth century audience, namely their special delight in “exploiting mystery, gloom and terror”, as Bertrand Evans put it. Gothic dramatists strived to promote this prevailing public taste. The playwright’s expression of the gothic was not an isolated art form - it was expressed through the visual arts as well as in verse and prose. |