Presumption; or, The Fate of Frankenstein

Richard Brinsley Peake (1792–1847) was an English dramatist of the early nineteenth century best remembered today for his 1823 play PRESUMPTION; OR, THE FATE OF FRANKENSTEIN, based on the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. It was Peake who wrote the famous line "It lives!" and invented the character of Fritz, a laboratory assistant who served as the precursor to the modern "Igor."

Jeffrey N Cox is Distinguished Professor of English Literature at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is the author or editor of ten books and more than sixty essays. Cox specializes in English and European Romanticism, cultural theory, and cultural studies. He is a leading scholar of late eighteenth- to early nineteenth-century drama and theater.

Mary Shelley (1797 – 1851) was a novelist and the wife of poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her most famous novel is Frankenstein. She also wrote the novels Valperga (1823), The Last Man (1826), and the autobiographical Lodore (1835). Her final novel, Mathilde, was published posthumously.