Gothic Renaissance: A reassessment

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Contents

Acknowledgements

Notes on contributors

Introduction: Elisabeth Bronfen and Beate Neumeier

Part I: Shakespearean hauntings

1. Yorick’s skull: John Drakakis

2. Beyond reason: Hamlet and earlymodern stage ghosts: Catherine Belsey

3. ‘What do I fear? Myself?’:nightmares, conscience andthe ‘Gothic’ self in Richard III: Per Sivefors

4. Queen Margaret’s haunting revenge:the Gothic legacy of Shakespeare’sWars of the Roses: Elisabeth Bronfen

Part II: Gothic Renaissance theatre

5. Vision and desire:fantastic Renaissance spectacles: Beate Neumeier

6. From grotesque to Gothic:Ben Jonson’s Masque of Queenes: Lynn S. Meskill

Part III: Gothic textuality inthe early modern period

7. Exhumations:scopophobia in Renaissance texts: Duncan Salkeld

8. Bright hair and brittle bones –Gothic affinities in metaphysical poetry: Ulrike Zimmermann

9. Vampirism in the Bower of Bliss: Garrett Sullivan

10. Ghostly authorities andthe British popular press: Andrea Brady

Part IV: Persistence of the Gothic

11. Monstrous to our human reason:minding the gap in The Winter’s Tale: Richard Wilson

12. Shakespeare, Ossian and the problemof ‘Scottish Gothic’: Dale Townshend

13. The rage of Caliban: Dorian Grayand the Gothic body: Andreas Höfele

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