Contents introduction chapter I. Horace Walpole is one of the influential writers

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION……………………………………….………………...….……3
CHAPTER I. Horace Walpole is one of the influential writers ……….…….…6
1.1. The Castle of Otranto and Shakespeare…………………………….…...…….…6
1.2. Gothic elements in literature………………………….………………..............10
CHAPTER II. The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole………………….….12
2.1. Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto is the original gothic novel………....14
2.2. The Semantic Charging of Space in The Castle of Otranto……………………..21
CONCLUSION …………………………………………………………………...25
REFERENCES …………………………………………………………..…….....27

INTRODUCTION
The Castle of Otranto is a book by Horace Walpole, first published in 1764, and is usually the first Gothic novel. In the second edition, Walpole used the word "Gothic" in a novel with a subtitle "A Gothic Story." The novel combines medieval and horror in a style that has survived since then. The aesthetics of the book have shaped modern gothic books, films, art, music and the goth subculture.
In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the novel began a literary genre that was well known to authors such as Clara Reeve, Ann Radcliffe, William Thomas Beckford, Matthew Lewis, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, and Robert Louis Stevenson and George du Maurier.
Otranto Castle was painted in 1764 when Horace was a deputy for Walpole King's Lin. Walpole built a fake Gothic castle of the Strawberry Hill House in 1749, marveling at its medieval history.
The original edition had a full name: Otranto Castle. The story. Translated by William Marshall, Gent. Original Italian Onuphrio Muralto, Canon of St. Nicholas Church in Otranto. This first edition was supposed to be a manuscript-based translation published in Naples in 1529 and recently found in the library of the "Old Catholic Family in the North of England." To further reinforce this, he used the archaic writing style.
It is said that the history of the Italian manuscript goes back to an even older history, probably the time of the Crusades. This is an Italian manuscript, along with the approximate author of the Onuphrio Muralto was Walpole’s imaginary creation and “William Marshall” was his nickname.
In the second and subsequent editions, Walpole acknowledged the authorship of his work, writing: "The positive public reaction to this little work calls on the author to explain the motives that created it" and "an attempt to confuse the two species." romance, ancient and modern. "In the first, everything was imaginary and incredible: in the second, nature was always designed to copy, and sometimes to move successfully ...". There was a debate at the time about the function of literature, i.e. whether its works should reflect artistic life or be more figurative (i.e., natural or romantic). The first edition was well received by some commentators, who considered the novel to be medieval fiction, "1095, the period of the First Crusade, and 1243, the date of the last, as stated in the Preface," as the first said. and some called Wallpole "a great translator," but after Wallpole acknowledged his authorship, many critics dismissed the work as absurd, nonsensical, romantic fiction or even disgusting or immoral.
Montague Summers, in his 1924 work The Castle of Otranto, showed that the life story of Manfred of Sicily inspired some details of the plot. Among Manfred's estates was Otranto's true medieval castle.