Gothic Renaissance

Elisabeth Bronfen is Professor of English and American Studies at the University of ZurichBeate Neumeier is Professor of English Studies at the University of Cologne

• Introduction – Elisabeth Bronfen and Beate NeumeierPart I: Shakesperean hauntings 1.Yorick’s skull – John Drakakis 2. Beyond reason: Hamlet and early modern stage ghosts – Catherine Belsey 3. ‘What do I fear? myself?’: nightmares, conscience and the ‘gothic’ self in Richard III – Per Sivefors4. Queen Margaret’s haunting revenge: the gothic legacy of Shakespeare’s War of the Roses – Elisabeth Bronfen Part II: Renaissance theatre 5. Vision and desire: fantastic Renaissance spectacles – Beate Neumeier 6. From grotesque to gothic: Ben Jonson’s Masque of Queenes – Lynn MeskillPart III: Gothic textuality in the early modern period7. Exhumations: scopophobia in Renaissance texts – Duncan Salkeld 8. Bright hair and brittle bones. Gothic affinities in metaphysical poetry – Ulrike Zimmermann9. Vampirism in the bower of bliss – Garrett Sullivan10. Ghostly authorities and the British popular press – Andrea Brady Part IV: Persistence of the gothic11. Monstrous to our human reason. Minding the gap In The Winter’s Tale – Richard Wilson12. Shakespeare, Ossian and the problem of ‘scottish gothic’ – Dale Townshend 13. The rage of Caliban. Dorian Gray and the gothic body – Andreas Höfele Index