All right, you're all going to talk to me about how The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari both embraces and subverts the structure, themes, and conventions of the gothic literature from which it stems, aren't you? Because otherwise I'll be over here just talking to myself, and that's not altogether sustainable ( Read more... )

I've written, and am likely to write, so much analysis of the story of Dracula, both in its novel, musical, and various movie incarnations over time that I thought I ought to gather it together somewhere. This post will be linked in the introductory post at the top of my journal, and will be updated regularly.

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As far as I can tell, Stoker's novel Dracula is divided into three basic sections, with the subplot of Renfield running parallel trough the first two and partway into the third. The first section consists of Jonathan's journey to Transylvania and his stay at Dracula's castle, the second of Lucy's slow illness/transformation into a vampire and her ( Read more... )

I have, over the past few years, read quite a lot about sexuality, particularly female sexuality, and the issues with it in Dracula (the novel, as I am not aware of the existence of any sort of analysis of such subjects in other forms of the story). On the whole, I generally have a lot of fundamental issues with these essays, particularly their ( Read more... )

I was thinking today about musicals that would be great if directed by John Doyle - this is a very long list, as you mist be able to imagine - when I hit on the idea of a John Doyle Phantom of the Opera. And that seems utterly awesome to me ( Read more... )

I have come to the conclusion that, while most of the songs in Spring Awakening make very little sense in context, a good number of them are very pretty. Which makes them nice to listen to, as long as I make up meanings for the lyrics.

Songs that actually make sense and are pretty ( Read more... )

Am I the only person in the world who thinks that "Guenevere" from Camelot could have incredible potential if staged correctly ( Read more... )

I said I would give a longer reveiw of Sweeney Todd, and so I will ( Read more... )

I have finished reading The Woman in White for the first time, and I loved it. I thought it was a wonderful book, which made me gleeful in the right places, and sad in the right places, and it also had me shivering in the right places. The characterization is amazing, and I really like the writing style ( Read more... )