1alaudacorax
Why I created this thread: http://www.librarything.com/topic/115964#2939435 (just substitute Uncle Silas for The Castle of Otranto).
5alaudacorax
>4 frahealee:
Okay, it's a couple of years since I've read it (Whoa! Seven?), but I'm surprised you haven't mentioned what I remember as probably the most interesting character besides Silas.
Okay, it's a couple of years since I've read it (Whoa! Seven?), but I'm surprised you haven't mentioned what I remember as probably the most interesting character besides Silas.
6alaudacorax
>6 alaudacorax:
Somewhere or other I speculated that with Madame Rougierre Le Fanu was influenced by the traditional Pantomime Dame or Ugly Sister role, then newly being played as a comic grotesque by male actors. I also suspect that panto itself is in some way a descendent of Gothic theatre (I think fallen out of fashion by that time - too lazy to look it up at the moment), so that the Dame or Sister of those days might have been a bit more 'grotesque' and a bit less 'comic' than in later years. Another of things I've been meaning to read up on for years.
Somewhere or other I speculated that with Madame Rougierre Le Fanu was influenced by the traditional Pantomime Dame or Ugly Sister role, then newly being played as a comic grotesque by male actors. I also suspect that panto itself is in some way a descendent of Gothic theatre (I think fallen out of fashion by that time - too lazy to look it up at the moment), so that the Dame or Sister of those days might have been a bit more 'grotesque' and a bit less 'comic' than in later years. Another of things I've been meaning to read up on for years.
7alaudacorax
>4 frahealee: - My frustration with ...
I distinctly remember really, really wanting to kick Maud's father.
I distinctly remember really, really wanting to kick Maud's father.
8alaudacorax
>4 frahealee:
Never heard of that film, that I remember. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. High rating on IMDb and filmed by the same chap who filmed The Third Man - got to see that.
Never heard of that film, that I remember. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. High rating on IMDb and filmed by the same chap who filmed The Third Man - got to see that.
