The Castle of Otranto
5 hrs. 43 min.
Description
“The Castle of Otranto” (1764) by Walpole opens a long series of popular Gothic novels—“novels of mystery and terror”—yet also historical novels on medieval themes, culminating, at a new and higher stage of development, in Walter Scott’s medieval novels.
“The Castle of Otranto” is a novel that struck contemporaries’ imaginations with its piling up of the frightening, the mysterious, and the supernatural. The story takes place in medieval Italy at the turn of the 12th–13th centuries. The owner of the Castle of Otranto is the cruel feudal lord Manfred, the grandson of the villain who poisoned his rival Alfonso in order to seize his property and power.
A prophecy hangs over Manfred’s line: members of the family will hold the castle until its rightful owner grows so large that the building can no longer contain him. According to the same prediction, the castle will remain in Manfred’s heirs’ hands only through the male line…
“The Castle of Otranto” is a novel that struck contemporaries’ imaginations with its piling up of the frightening, the mysterious, and the supernatural. The story takes place in medieval Italy at the turn of the 12th–13th centuries. The owner of the Castle of Otranto is the cruel feudal lord Manfred, the grandson of the villain who poisoned his rival Alfonso in order to seize his property and power.
A prophecy hangs over Manfred’s line: members of the family will hold the castle until its rightful owner grows so large that the building can no longer contain him. According to the same prediction, the castle will remain in Manfred’s heirs’ hands only through the male line…
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