Peggy Webling and the Story behind Frankenstein - 9781350371644

Peggy Webling and the Story behind FrankensteinThe Making of a Hollywood Monster\nAuthor(s): Peggy Webling, Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum, Bruce Graver\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781350371644, 978-1350371644\nSynopsis\nThe 1931 Universal Pictures film adaptation of Frankenstein directed by James Whale and starring Boris Karloff as the now iconic Monster claims in its credits to be Adapted from the play by Peggy Webling. \n\nWeblings play sought to humanize the creature, was the first stage adaptation to position Frankenstein and his creation as doppelgngers, and offered a feminist perspective on scientific efforts to create life without women, ideas that suffuse todays perceptions of Frankensteins monster. The original play script exists in several different versions, only two of which have ever been consulted by scholars; no version has ever been published. Nor have scholars had access to Weblings priv.