"Her greatest love inspired her darkest creation"

2017

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7.0(1040 votes)

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Overview

The love affair between poet Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin resulted in the creation of an immortal novel, “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.”

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Cast & Crew

23 members

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Elle Fanning

Mary Shelley

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Douglas Booth

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Bel Powley

Claire Clairmont

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Stephen Dillane

William Godwin

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Joanne Froggatt

Mary Jane Clairmont

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Tom Sturridge

Lord Byron

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Ben Hardy

Dr. John Polidori

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Maisie Williams

Isabel Baxter

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Hugh O'Conor

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Ciara Charteris

Harriet Shelley

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Jack Hickey

Thomas Hogg

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Laurence Foster

Bookseller

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Derek Riddell

William Baxter

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Stuart Graham

Publisher

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Owen Richards

William Godwin

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Martin Phillips

Deacon

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Chloe Vos

Ianthe

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Serena Barnes

Landlady

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Mella Carron

Girl in Park

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Sarah Lamesch

Eliza

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Alexander Cobb

Scientist

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Wilhelmina von Blumenthal

Servant of Byron

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Nathan Vos

Young Percy

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