Dracula

Dracula: History, Myth, and Popular Culture

TransformationsHistory: Vlad III Dracula 1431-1476Literature: Bram Stokers, Dracula 1897 Theatre: Dracula 1924 & 1927Film: NosferatuShadow of the Vampire 1922-2000

History: Vlad III Dracula 1431-1476Born: 1431 in Sighisoara, TransylvaniaDracula: Son of the Dragon/DevilSecond child of Vlad II Dracul, voivode of WalachiaWalachia: principality between the Danube and the Transylvanian Alps in southern RomaniaVoivode (prince and military leader) for 3 separate periods: 1448, 1456-1462, and 1476To Romanians: Vlad Tepes (Vlad the Impaler) To Turks: Kaziglu Bey (the Impaler Prince)Impalement: preferred method of executionUnified Walachia - resisted Ottoman advancesKilled while fighting Turks near Bucharest in 1476

History: Vlad III Dracula 1431-1476During 2nd reign: murdered between 40,000 and 100,000 people by 1462 Mid-15th century: German, Russian, and Turkish pamphlets establish notorietyThe Frightening and Truly Extraordinary Story of a Wicked Blood-drinking Tyrant Called Prince Dracula. Nuremberg, 1488: "He had a large pot made and boards with holes fastened over it and had people's heads shoved through there and imprisoned them in this. And he had the pot filled with water and a big fire made under the pot and thus let the people cry out pitiably until they were boiled quite to death.An immortal heroic icon

Never associated with vampires

Literature: Bram Stoker 1847-19121882: First book, Under the Sunset 1890: First novel, The Snakes Pass

1897: Dracula publishedApril 20, 1912: Dies in LondonNovember 8th, 1847: Abraham Bram Stoker born in Clontarf, IrelandAttended Trinity College in Dublin8 years of civil service1872: First story, The Crystal Cup1878: Begins managing Henry Irving at Londons Lyceum Theatre

Literature: Bram Stokers Influences 1890-1896

Researched eastern European vampire folklore (especially Transylvanian myths)An Account of the Principalities of Walachia And Moldavia, An Extraordinary and Shocking History of a Great Berserker Called Prince Dracula, and The Historie and Superstitions of Romantic Romania The Un-dead and Count Wampyr1890: Met Hungarian professor, Arminius VanberySyphilis in Victorian EnglandNever set foot in Romania

Literature: Bram Stokers Influences 1890-1896

Literature: Bram Stokers Dracula 1897Epistolary novelSignificant plot changes2nd to the Bible in salesInspired or influenced over 700 filmsNever been out of printTranslated into every major language in the worldOnly one page in a vast output of political pornography directed against us by our enemies; an attack on the very idea of being a Romanian. -Adrian Panescu, 1985