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By Peter Hummers

Noted Shakespeare apologist and general literatus Kenneth Branagh ( Hamlet ) filmed his own, faithful, treatment of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in 1994. The signs were encouraging; he set out to reclaim Shelley’s story from the likes of Hollywood’s James Whale, who had filmed it in 1931 and 1935, taking liberties with the source text but still managing to produce two brilliant films .

MARY SHELLEY’S FRANKENSTEIN

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In the ’thirties, James Whale shifted Shelley’s action from 1818, when Frankenstein was written, to the generic fairy-tale land of Universal Studios’ “Bohemia”; that is, what American hor