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Real Frankenstein Experiments: Andrew Ure, The Scottish Genius Who Electrified Dead Bodies Before A Crowd. Around the time Aldini was experimenting with his executed criminals in London, ...
The real monster of ‘Frankenstein’ is brutal, and it’s not who you think. In her column “Brutal Monsters,” Cate Burtner ’25 offers commentary on the literature of mental illness.
Frankenstein is as timeless of a monster as they come. First appearing in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, Frankenstein's Monster has found himself at the center of pop ...
Scientists want to make a real-life Frankenstein's lab to create 'spare' bodies for use in medical trials and as a source of organs for transplants.
Thinking about the science that made Frankenstein seem so real in 1818 might help us consider more carefully the ways we think now about the possibilities – and the dangers – of our present ...
Women’s Rights and Women’s Wrongs: Lisa Frankenstein’s Complex Heroine Is the Real Monster Diablo Cody and Zelda Williams on making the anti-Weird Science.
Many know the story of the original Frankenstein, which depicts Doctor Victor Frankenstein as the real horror, while the monster he creates is misunderstood by society. That’s not the case with ...
This Shakespeare Theatre Company world premiere brings freshness to the Mary Shelley story.
David Catlin's “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein,” on stage at the Merrimack Repertory in Lowell, blends facts and folkloric accounts of the party, including the challenge for guests to write a ...