RT Journal Article
T1 William Dunlap’s «Leicester» : or, the Migration of Gothic Drama
A1 Correoso Ródenas, José Manuel
AB It is needless to say that Gothic has been (and still is) one of the most successful and fruitful literary movements ever developed in the Western Hemisphere. Lesser know is that it had its dramatic counterpart, a much less profitable subgenre, although cultivated by the leading authors that had enthroned gothic novels. The main objective of this article is to show how William Dunlap, the so-called father of American drama adapted the European conventions for the Gothic and rewrote them in the newly born United States. Through his tragedy «Leicester» (1807), it will be seen how Dunlap was both an inheritor of dramatic previous traditions (like Shakespeare’s tragedies) and of Gothic (both novel and drama), as his relation with Charles Brockden Brown stated. This play (among others Dunlap wrote) proves how the genre «migrated» from European soil to America, as it had previously happened with narrations, generating a new tradition which lasts until the present day.
PB Brooklyn Research and Publishing Institute
SN 2334-234X
YR 2020
FD 2020-12
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/107768
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/107768
LA eng
NO Correoso-Rodenas, José Manuel. «William Dunlap’s “Leicester” : or, the Migration of Gothic Drama». International Journal of Language and Literature, vol. 8, n.º 2, 2020, pp. 21-30. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.15640/ijll.v8n2a4.
DS Docta Complutense
RD 18 abr 2025