Out of the thousands of adaptations of Frankenstein that have been made over the years, there is only one that we have a record of Mary Shelley actually seeing: Richard Brinsley Peake’s Presumption; or, The Fate of Frankenstein.

This episode features the voices of Steven Nelson and Mary Shelly as well as a very special appearance by Samuel Asimov Matzke.

Sources:

Cox, Jeffrey N. (ed.) Seven Gothic Dramas 1789-1825. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1992.

Nichols, Harold J. “The Acting of Thomas Potter Cooke.” http://knarf.english.upenn.edu/Articles/nichols.html

Romantic Circles. “Novel into Drama and onto Stage.” http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/peake/apparatus/drama.html