I'm in the middle of writing a paper for my class on Edgar Allen Poe class, and found this in a Google search for "Masque of the Red Death." Do you ever find that the more you learn, the more your learning overlaps, and overlaps in the strangest ways imaginable? This article describes what for me is a crossover between a course I took in Cambridge on experimental/avant-garde literature/theatre/art and my current Poe class. In this production, the audience participates (avant-garde!) in the "bacchanal" described in "Red Death."
More entertaining, though, was the author's summaries of a couple different Poe stories:
"tales like “Ligeia” (ghost of gloomy guy’s first wife makes trouble for second), “The Cask of Amontillado” (gloomy guy immures frenemy in wine cellar) and “The Fall of the House of Usher” (super-gloomy guy’s sister is buried alive, and house undergoes extreme makeover)."
Hope I make it through the semester without becoming "gloomy guy" or his wife.
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