Contents

pp v-vi

Acknowledgements

pp vii-viii

Notes on contributors

pp ix-xii

Introduction

pp 1-14

Part I - Shakespearean hauntings

pp 15-16

1 - Yorick’s skull

pp 17-31

2 - Beyond reason: Hamlet and early modern stage ghosts

pp 32-54

3 - ‘What do I fear? Myself?’: Nightmares, conscience and the ‘Gothic’ self in Richard III

pp 55-74

4 - Queen Margaret’s haunting revenge: The Gothic legacy of Shakespeare’s Wars of the Roses

pp 75-92

Part II - Gothic Renaissance theatre

pp 93-94

5 - Vision and desire: Fantastic Renaissance spectacles

pp 95-112

6 - From grotesque to Gothic: Ben Jonson’s Masque of Queenes

pp 113-136

Part III - Gothic textuality inthe early modern period

pp 137-138

7 - Exhumations: Scopophobia in Renaissance texts

pp 139-151

8 - Bright hair and brittle bones – Gothic affinities in metaphysical poetry

pp 152-166

9 - Vampirism in the Bower of Bliss

pp 167-179

10 - Ghostly authorities and the British popular press

pp 180-196

Part IV - Persistence of the Gothic

pp 197-198

11 - Monstrous to our human reason: Minding the gap in The Winter’s Tale

pp 199-217

12 - Shakespeare, Ossian and the problem of ‘Scottish Gothic’

pp 218-243

13 - The rage of Caliban: Dorian Grayand the Gothic body

pp 244-264

Index

pp 265-272