This collection of essays explores the thesis that Shakespeare as
we know him today was born in the eighteenth century, at the same
time as the Gothic tradition, first named by Horace Walpole in
1764. The two are inextricable. Writers interested in pursuing
'Gothic' themes and forms (the supernatural events and generic
hybrids decried by French neoclassicism) justified their aesthetic
choices as following the example of their great - and emphatically
English - precursor. They cited him in their epigraphs and
appropriated his narratives. They echoed his language and imitated
his dramatic devices. Like Shakespeare, they explored the ways in
which familial ghosts may haunt the present. Like him, they mixed
modes and genres: tragedy and comedy, verse and prose. Together,
critics of Shakespeare and creators of the Gothic (often one and
the same author) not only canonized England's secular saint and
created a new literary mode; they collectively initiated a mode of
subjectivity that remains with us today in both high and popular
culture.
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