“Adaptations, Rewritings, and Receptions”

This introduction focuses on the proliferation of translations, adaptations, and rewritings of Frankenstein across different media and fields ¬– stage, cinema, and performance arts – and across the world, from post-communist Poland to US-occupied Iraq. The legacies and countless afterlives of Mary Shelley’s dark fable attest to its being a classic as well as powerful modern myth, a cultural icon with a distinct place in global culture.