Cynthia E. Roman is curator of prints, drawings, and paintings at the Lewis Walpole Library. Jill Campbell is professor of English and affiliated faculty in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Yale University. Jonathan Kramnick is the Maynard Mack Professor of English at Yale University and the director of the Lewis Walpole Library.

“This handsome, erudite, and entertaining volume is in every way the perfect companion to Horace Walpole’s rarely recognized masterpiece.”—George E. Haggerty, University of California, Riverside“Every expert contribution to Staging ‘The Mysterious Mother,’ like every room of Horace Walpole’s Gothic Strawberry Hill, contains well-curated treasures.”—Joseph Roach, Yale University“This outstanding volume propels Horace Walpole’s Mysterious Mother out of the closet and onto the boards in illustrious fashion. Bringing the insights of brilliant scholars into conversation with both the shocking original and a masterfully cut text provides a daring provocation for us all to stage this ‘theatre of monstrous guilt.’”—Lisa A. Freeman, University of Illinois Chicago

Cynthia E. Roman is curator of prints, drawings, and paintings at the Lewis Walpole Library. Jill Campbell is professor of English and affiliated faculty in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Yale University. Jonathan Kramnick is the Maynard Mack Professor of English at Yale University and the director of the Lewis Walpole Library.

“This handsome, erudite, and entertaining volume is in every way the perfect companion to Horace Walpole’s rarely recognized masterpiece.”—George E. Haggerty, University of California, Riverside“Every expert contribution to Staging ‘The Mysterious Mother,’ like every room of Horace Walpole’s Gothic Strawberry Hill, contains well-curated treasures.”—Joseph Roach, Yale University“This outstanding volume propels Horace Walpole’s Mysterious Mother out of the closet and onto the boards in illustrious fashion. Bringing the insights of brilliant scholars into conversation with both the shocking original and a masterfully cut text provides a daring provocation for us all to stage this ‘theatre of monstrous guilt.’”—Lisa A. Freeman, University of Illinois Chicago

Cynthia E. Roman is curator of prints, drawings, and paintings at the Lewis Walpole Library. Jill Campbell is professor of English and affiliated faculty in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Yale University. Jonathan Kramnick is the Maynard Mack Professor of English at Yale University and the director of the Lewis Walpole Library.

“This handsome, erudite, and entertaining volume is in every way the perfect companion to Horace Walpole’s rarely recognized masterpiece.”—George E. Haggerty, University of California, Riverside“Every expert contribution to Staging ‘The Mysterious Mother,’ like every room of Horace Walpole’s Gothic Strawberry Hill, contains well-curated treasures.”—Joseph Roach, Yale University“This outstanding volume propels Horace Walpole’s Mysterious Mother out of the closet and onto the boards in illustrious fashion. Bringing the insights of brilliant scholars into conversation with both the shocking original and a masterfully cut text provides a daring provocation for us all to stage this ‘theatre of monstrous guilt.’”—Lisa A. Freeman, University of Illinois Chicago