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[ricardo shillyshally]

They are running a history of Gothic on BBC4. First they showed Mark Gatiss's wonderful Horror Europa, where he sees European horror films as a metaphor for the carnage of the twentieth century. Including such delights as The Cabinet of Dr Caligari featuring Conrad Veidt. And yesterday in The Art of Gothic, they showed how Gothic became a sort of subconscious containing everything The Age of Enlightenment suppressed. It seems by the eighteen century William Shakespeare's work had almost been forgotten. They revived it, as a link to our medieval past.

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