Senior Ivy Laine Posey tells a powerful story about gender identity in her thesis play, titled “Victor Built a Body; or, the ...

Possibly even more interesting than the story within Frankenstein is the story of its author, Mary Shelley. Born Mary ...

Shelley places Victor Frankenstein's childhood in Geneva—a nod, perhaps, to where she first conjured him. In June 1816, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, then 18, joined her future husband ...

Mary Shelley ... so he begs Frankenstein to conjure him a female mate. Frankenstein complies but immediately regrets his action, so winds up destroying the female in front of his original ...

Starring Jamie Parker as Frankenstein. In Switzerland 1816, by the shore of Lake Geneva, the poet Shelley and his future wife Mary, together with her step-sister Claire, meet the infamous Lord Byron.