Shakespearean Gothic

An expert on the gothic, E. J. Clery famously stated, “Scratch the surface of any gothic fiction and the debt to Shakespeare will be there.” This collection takes Clery’s quotation as a starting point and addresses not only the influence of the gothic on Shakespeare, both in print and on the stage, in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain, but also Shakespeare’s importance to the gothic tradition as a whole—as well as to particular and often-studied gothic works.