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: The play catches Mina and Lucy at a pivotal moment as they are about to marry. Lochhead highlights the fear and anticipation associated with this shift in status. Madness and the Asylum

Liz Lochhead’s 1985 theatrical adaptation of Dracula famously shifts the vampire from a foreign aristocrat to a parasitic emblem of patriarchal control. Nowhere is this more compressed than on page 33 of the standard Nick Hern Books edition (2007), where Mina Murray and Lucy Westerna’s conversation about the “New Woman” collides directly with the play’s eroticised horror. This paper argues that page 33 functions as a dramatic nucleus: Lochhead uses the female characters’ own words to demonstrate how the New Woman’s liberation is simultaneously a lure toward the vampire’s seduction—and how the only “safe” woman is a silent, staked one. Liz Lochhead Dracula Pdf 33