Introduction/ John Drakakis -- Shakespeare's nocturnal world/ Elizabeth Bronfen -- Shakespeare among the goths/ Steven Craig -- Gothic and the ghost of Hamlet/ Dale Townshend -- The scene of a crime: fiction of authority in Walpole's "Gothic Shakespeare"/ Sue Chaplin -- In search of Arden: Ann Radcliffe's William Shakespeare/ Angela Wright -- Gothic Shakespeare on the romantic stage/ Michael Gamer and Robert Miles -- Theatres of blood: Shakespeare and the horror film/ Peter Hutchings -- "As one dead": Romeo and Juliet in the "twilight" zone/ Glennis Byron -- Gothspeare and the origins of cultural studies/ Fred Botting and Scott Wilson -- Afterword/ Jerrold Hogle.