This is hardly surprising considering Gothic fiction's entrance onto the literary stage in mid eighteenth century England, which was dominated by the Reformation and poised to embrace the Romantic movement. ... In this paper I will analyze Shakespeare's use of two similar motifs associated with the Gothic genre, dreams and sleep, in several of his plays in hope of showing how thoroughly grounded the relationship between Shakespeare and Gothic fiction truly is. ... " Along with the haunted castle or tomb like structure, ghosts, darkness, damsels in distress, supernatural events, and othe...

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