Reframing the Story. Mary Shelleys "Frankenstein" (1831) and Dorothy Louises "Frankenstein" (2004)

Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Comparative Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Heidelberg, course: Proseminar II: Two Hundred Years of Frankenstein: Adaptations for Stage and Film, language: English, abstract: This term paper compares the 1831-edition of Mary Shelley s famous novel "Frankenstein" with Dorothy Louise s modern stage adaptation of the novel, looking at similarities, differences and methods of adaptation. In the first part of the paper, a paratext of the novel - namely Mary Shelley s introduction from 1831 - is analyzed, because Dorothy Louise uses this paratext as a new frame for the Frankenstein story in her play. In the second part of the paper, the narrative structure of the novel is discussed and the ways in which Dorothy Louise adapts those structures are presented.