There has been a Frankenstein furore lately. On the on-line BBC News Magazine, appears an article by Thomas Geoghegan, “Frankenstein: 10 possible meanings”. One could add noughts to that....

An interesting article in the online BBC News Magazine on "The meanings of Frankenstein containing, amongst other things, an interview with Dr Angela Wright, of Sheffield University, can be found here.

‘I will not torture you.  I will reason with you.  Isn’t that what we do?  Have a dialogue?’ So says the Creature to an astounded and fearful Victor in playwright Nick Dear’s stunning, conceptual adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein currently playing at the National Theatre in London.  And what a dialogue it is, with the two protagonists duelling and debating throughout.  Nick Dear’s intention with this piece was to give the Creature his voice back: although Mary Shelley had given him a voice, most adaptations have not, and so the play opens from the Creature’s poin

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is adapted for the stage by Nick Dear and directed by Danny Boyle...