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Angela Carter's fantastic fiction is noteworthy for its stylistic excellence, its treatment of feminist themes, and its reliance on and reaction to motion-picture, fairy-tale, folklore, gothic, and science-fiction sources. Despite the fact that her posta...

During the inventive last ten years of her life—when she produced two of the most festive and disturbing novels of the last years of the century, Nights at the Circus (1984) and Wise Children (1991)—Angela Carter also reinvented herself. She to...

Angela Carter's fiction poses precisely the question of what is central, what eccentric in contemporary British writing. "We live in Gothic times," she wrote in an afterword to her 1974 collection of tales, Fireworks; and all her work reflects that perce...

Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter Nights at the Circus is the eighth of nine novels written by Angela Carter (1940- 92) before she died of cancer at the age of 51, in her literary prime. Raised in Yorkshire and London by middle-class parents, Carter...

Nights at the Circus is a novel by Angela Carter, first published in 1984 and that year's winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. The novel focuses on the life and exploits of its main female protagonist, Sophie Fevvers. She is an...

THEATRE 2 With bold sleight of hand Kneehigh Theatre raises the shimmering gold-dust, sawdust world of Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus from the floorboards of the Lyric, Hammersmith. For the first half of this production by their artistic director, Emma Rice, I...

When I was a little girl, my parents would load up the car on a summer night and take us to the Shrine Circus. I loved the sights and the smells and especially the tastes--hot dogs smothered in sweet ketchup and sticky, magical...