Edexcel AS coursework - Gothic & Supernatural - Drama
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Woman in Black
Sweeny Todd
The Mousetrap?
Quills
Also Sarah Kane's SAVED, PHAEDRA'S LOVE, and BLASTED, Caryl Churchill's VINEGAR TOM, any good more-guignol-than-camp production of Wilde's SALOME, the final scene of Cheryl L. West's HOLIDAY HEART, Lucy Gough's MAPPING THE SOUL, and (forgot the playwright's name's) THE OVERWHELMING.
Salome
Duchess of Padua
Passion, Poison, and Petrifaction
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Married couple Charles and Ruth host a seance only to discover their house is being haunted by the ghost of Charles' dead wife Elvira. Elvira plots to kill Charles so he can join her on the other side but accidentally succeeds in murdering Ruth. With mutual hatred the two wives haunt the house together to comic effect. |
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Themes: marriage, spiritualism |
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Film adaptions: Blithe Spirit (1945)
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Poison, Passion and Petrifaction
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When three witches appear to Macbeth and deliver prophecies of future greatness, he and his wife plot to commit regicide. A path Following
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Themes: fate vs free will, ambition,
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