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Thomas Cooke as Frankenstein
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Thomas Cooke (1786-1864), the famous actor, as Frankenstein's monster in
'Presumption, or the Fate of Frankenstein', Richard Brinsley Peake's 1823 adaptation
of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Title: Thomas Cooke as Frankenstein
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Thomas Cooke (1786-1864), the famous actor, as Frankenstein's monster in
'Presumption, or the Fate of Frankenstein', Richard Brinsley Peake's 1823 adaptation
of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
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