What is it about?
This article explores how the TV series Penny Dreadful adapts nineteenth-century fiction. The article argues that the series' title positions the series very effectively for the contemporary television marketplace by invoking popular penny fiction in the context of literary adaptation.
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Why is it important?
The essay is one of the first scholarly attempts to analyse the success and sources of Penny Dreadful. It has implications for future work on literary screen adaptations, mashups and crossover fiction.
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Ben Poore is a Lecturer in Theatre at the Department of Theatre, Film and Television, University of York, UK. He has published widely on adaptations of Victorian literature and the afterlives of Victorian characters. His books include Heritage, Nostalgia and Modern British Theatre: Staging the Victorians, and Theatre & Empire
Professor Benjamin Poore
University of York
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This page is a summary of: The Transformed Beast:Penny Dreadful, Adaptation, and the Gothic, Victoriographies, March 2016, Edinburgh University Press,
DOI: 10.3366/vic.2016.0211.
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