num_pages: 226
description: This book examines the often tragic and nearly always disabling metaphor of the theatrum mundi , world-as-stage, as it plays itself out in the characters of Mary Shelley's novels.
language: English
title: 'All the World's a Stage': Dramatic Sensibility in Mary Shelley's Novels
titlecomplete: 'All the World's a Stage': Dramatic Sensibility in Mary Shelley's Novels (Studies in Major Literary Authors)
publisher: Routledge