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One of the most accurate adaptations of Frankenstein still has a moment that strays considerably from the source material.
Frankenstein may be fiction, but its influence on real-world medicine is very real. This video uncovers how Mary Shelley’s fascination with electricity and life inspired engineer Earl Bakken to ...
To those who know Mary Shelley best, the flavor and quality of her writing comes as no surprise. The author was influenced by great artists and thinkers throughout her life, from her philosopher ...
With Frankenstein at Shakespeare Theatre Company, Emily Burns updates Mary Shelley’s 200-year-old monster mash for the tech ...
For Anne K. Mellor, professor of English and women's studies at UCLA and the author of Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters, both Bella's origin story and her essence follow in ...
The creature himself was anonymous. So too was Mary Shelley when she first published “Frankenstein” because the novel was so controversial for 1818. And so is the name of Portland playwright ...
It was a monster of a sale. A rare first-edition copy of Mary Shelley’s classic novel “Frankenstein” — one of only three copies known to have survived — fetched a spine-tingling $843,750 ...
Dive into Mary Shelley's masterpiece with our 50 quotes from her classic novel. And there are a lot of them. In fact, people tend to forget what Frankenstein—the book—was really about and ...
Now Barakiva is back in Northeast Ohio, directing the company’s just-opened show “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein,” which runs through Nov. 12 at Playhouse Square’s Outcalt Theatre.
“Chloe liked Olivia.” When Virginia Woolf wrote this innocuous sentence in “A Room of One’s Own,” her foundational work of feminist criticism, she opened the door to another field, still ...
Mary Shelley was famously inspired to write “Frankenstein”—the tale of a monster and the man who created him—because of a ghost story competition. “Alive: The Mary Shelley Musical,” a First Stages ...