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...and fall to someone’s political ambitions. What’s the other half of the story about? It’s based on a line or two in Mary Shelley’s original novel of “Frankenstein.” The story begins and ends up at the North Pole, with a ship stuck in ice. Dr....
...Canada. Based on the Oscar-nominated smash hit 1974 film, Young Frankenstein is the wickedly inspired re-imagining of the Mary Shelley classic from the comic genius of Mel Brooks.  When Frederick Frankenstein, an esteemed New York brain surgeon and...
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...Shelley's Frankenstein was famously inspired by telling ghost stories with Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron during a cold, wet summer in the Swiss Alps. It continues to serve as shorthand for the dangers of reckless scientific advance, yet literary...
...hath Barasch wrought! A great big new music drama about Mary Shelley, that's what -- which means it's also about Shelley's greatest, most notorious creation, the story of Victor Frankenstein and his monster. But Shirley Barasch's "Mary Shelley and Her...
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...with Shelley, Byron, and a host of their friends. A look back at the time reveals how the novel reflected real events Mary Shelley knew about and incorporated into the story. Erasmus Darwin (grandfather of Charles Darwin) was a friend of Mary Shelley’s...
...(1998) {Transition (#4.5)} Mary Scott (I) (Mary Shelley) . . . "Hallmark Hall of Fame" (1951) {The Finest Gift} [Note: The Mary Shelley who appeared in an episode of 'Alien Nation' was a Tenctonese refugee given that name by immigration officials who...
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