Belgrade theatre, CoventryPlacing Mary Shelley alongside the characters she created undermines the extraordinary power of her classic story The real-life tale behind the creation of Frankenstein is almost as well known as the story itself: Mary Shelley dreamed it up at the age of 18, winning a wager with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. It was published two years later, in 1818. Rona Munro incorporates this story…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06AM on October 7, 2019