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![]() ![]() ![]() But we can find precursors to the Gothic story in early ghost stories from as far back as the Middle Ages, and plays like Shakespeare’s Hamlet are shot through with what we’d now call ‘the Gothic’ and we can even point to earlier novels or novellas, such as William Baldwin’s early narrative Beware the Cat (written back in the 1550s), as precursors to the ‘Gothic’ novel as we conceive it, even if it resembles later masterpieces of the genre such as Jekyll and Hyde or The Beetle rather than early eighteenth-century Gothic novels like Walpole’s. ![]()
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