![]() ![]() During season 3, he recruits a young woman named Justine who is actually based on the Marquis de Sade’s French libertine novel Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue (1791). Showtime’s literary horror drama series Penny Dreadful returned to the network on Apwith a new spin-off, Penny Dreadful: City of Angels. Just like Reeve Carney’s Dorian Gray, the character lives debaucherously as a man who indulges in sex, alcohol, and the libertine lifestyle. Starring: Natalie Dormer, Daniel Zovatto, Nathan Lane. In the 1830s, increasing literacy and improving technology saw a boom in cheap fiction for the working classes. Judith Flanders explains what made these cheap, sensational, highly illustrated stories so popular with the Victorian public. His looks never fade due to a portrait that keeps him youthful. Penny dreadfuls The penny dreadful was a 19th-century publishing phenomenon. This pejorative term is roughly synonymous with penny. Keats and Wordsworth were two of the most famous Romantic poets, by quoting them, it sets the tone for relationships between characters and their inner most thoughts.Īlong with quotes taken directly from famous works, Penny Dreadful includes Oscar Wilde’s titular character from the 1890 novel The Picture Of Dorian Gray about a man whose beauty entrances everyone he comes in contact with. The Penny Dreadfuls is a popular inexpensive literary serial produced in England in the 19th century. The name given in the Victorian age to a kind of cheaply produced book containing bloodthirsty narratives of crime, sometimes merely plagiarisms from Gothic. ![]() Characters are known to quote William Wordsworth’s 1815 poem “Ode: Intimations Of Immortality” and John Keats’s 1819 poem “Ode To A Nightingale” in order to establish the Romantic era’s influence on the gothic landscape that they navigate. ![]() Furthermore, season 3 begins with death of British poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson who famously wrote “Ulysses” in 1833. This book unites three of the most notorious literary giants of the nineteenth century, all born of the penny dreadful tradition: Dracula, Frankenstein. For instance, William Shakespeare is quoted and referenced throughout the series’s entirety. The literary references in Penny Dreadful are plentiful. ![]()
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