The Country Wife (1675) + Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) Anyone who knows me in real life can attest that I have a fascination with both of these pieces of media. Both originally written as plays and adapted for the film camera, these two productions share a surprising amount of dramatic and thematic conventions. Despite the 300 year gap between the two productions, I am determined that there is a common thread connecting my obsessions with these two stories. I first read

in Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, 1935 In the autumn of 2024, I studied abroad in Bath, England with a program called Advanced Studies in England. The program was dominated by English-majors and the adjacent subject areas, and so naturally, I felt like I was in heaven. In one of my courses, the focus was on mental illness and its perception in female-focused literature. The reading list included "lunacy-study" classics like Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys, 1966), The Bell Jar (S