Arts ReviewA remake

Jan 8, 2025 | the-tls.co.uk | Arts ReviewA remake |J. S. Barnes |Adam Mars-Jones |colin grant

The Transylvanian Count Dracula is a shapeshifter in multiple senses. In Bram Stoker’s novel of 1897 he is seen frequently to transform, moving from an old man to a young one and from human form into a bat, a dog and a column of mist. In terms of the archetypes of Joseph Campbell’s Monomyth, he is both Shadow and Shapeshifter: a being composed of pure malevolence who also twists and changes, remaining one step ahead of his adversaries until the end.