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The Creature's love of music, and his remarkable responses to it, are retained from Mary Shelley's tale in Peake's Presumption, where music functions almost in the fashion of a leitmotif in marking the Creature's stage presence, his entrances and exits.
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In the original playbill the Creature is not even given a descriptive name but is instead represented merely by a set of dashes, so thoroughly has he been divested in Peake's script of any personal identity or human dignity.
Cast and Characters 2008
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Keeley first appeared in this part, which Peake is said to have written expressly for him (Oxberry, 5: 151).
Cast and Characters 2008
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Peake is one of the few fantasists whose style is rich enough to compensate for the lack of grounding.
The Great Debate Hal Duncan 2005
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In fact, it appears explicitly only in Peake's 1823 Another Piece of Presumption, a parody of his own Presumption, where the tailor Frankinstitch murders his apprentices and sews pieces of them together to make the monster.
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I must here inform you that the word Peake, or Pike, in old
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I must here inform you that the word Peake, or Pike, in old English signifies a point or summit.
Travels in England in 1782 Karl Philipp Moritz 1775
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"But they haint any harness," said Tommy, using the word Peake always used, -- "I mean, hisn't any -- no, I mean haven't any harness.
Tommy Trot's Visit to Santa Claus Thomas Nelson Page 1887
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Though Horne, nor clumsy Serle, could save his "Peake,"
The Age Reviewed 2010
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Pre-Karloffian dramatizations played an important role in disseminating popular conceptions — and misconceptions — of Mary Shelley's novel, from the incipient gothic melodramas such as Peake's
Plays 2010
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