SOURCE: Ranger, Paul. “The Gothic Spirit.” In ‘Terror and Pity Reign in Every Breast’: Gothic Drama in the London Patent Theatres, 1750-1820, pp. 1-18. London: The Society for Theatre Research, 1991.
In the following essay, Ranger details the various motifs, settings, stock characters, narrative devices, and themes of the Gothic drama.
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