In the following essay, Backsheider maintains that the enormous popularity of Gothic drama can be accounted for by its ability to reproduce and contain the cultural anxieties that accompanied the era's political and social unrest.

In the following excerpt, Cox provides an overview of the history of Gothic drama and an examination of its main features and themes.

In the following essay, Gamer discusses the Gothic dramas of Matthew Lewis and Sir Walter Scott.

In the following excerpt, Evans discusses the use of Gothic elements in the plays of the major Romantic poets: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Scott, Byron, and Shelley.

In the following essay, Ranger details the various motifs, settings, stock characters, narrative devices, and themes of the Gothic drama.

In the following essay, Franceschina examines the contributions of female playwrights to the Gothic genre.

In the following essay, Reno explains the nearly universal critical objections to the appearance of ghosts onstage in Gothic plays performed in the late eighteenth century.

In the following essay, Thorp discusses strategies employed by Gothic playwrights to minimize the effects of the horrors they were staging.

In the following essay, Hoeveler examines the social and political implications of the Gothic drama's popularity.