Introduction: setting the scene -- Stoker, melodrama and the gothic -- Irving's tempters and Stoker's vanishing ladies: supernatural production, mesmeric influence and magical illusion -- Ellen Terry and the "bloofer lady": femininity and fallenness -- Gothic weddings and performing vampires: GenevieĢve Ward and The lady of the shroud -- The Lyceum's Macbeth and Stoker's Dracula -- Conclusion.
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