Gothic Renaissance (eBook)

Elisabeth Bronfen is Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Zurich Beate Neumeier is Professor of English Studies at the University of Cologne

Introduction – Elisabeth Bronfen and Beate Neumeier
Part I: Shakesperean hauntings
1.Yorick’s skull – John Drakakis
2. Beyond reason: Hamlet and early modern stage ghosts – Catherine Belsey
3. ‘What do I fear? myself?’: nightmares, conscience and the ‘gothic’ self in Richard III – Per Sivefors
4. Queen Margaret’s haunting revenge: the gothic legacy of Shakespeare’s War of the Roses – Elisabeth Bronfen Part II: Renaissance theatre
5. Vision and desire: fantastic Renaissance spectacles – Beate Neumeier
6. From grotesque to gothic: Ben Jonson’s Masque of Queenes – Lynn Meskill
Part III: Gothic textuality in the 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 and the 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 problem of ‘scottish gothic’ – Dale Townshend
13. The rage of Caliban. Dorian Gray and the gothic body – Andreas Höfele
Index