Down East interviews Bicks about similarities between Stephen King, Shakespeare
The January 2018 edition of Down East magazine features an interview with Caroline Bicks, the Stephen E. King Chair in Literature at the University of Maine. For the article, “How now, Stephen King?”, Bicks was asked about similarities between the Maine horror author and William Shakespeare. Bicks spoke about her current research looking at how the minds of Shakespeare’s female characters get activated when they near or pass through puberty. “King is clearly drawn to the brainwork of these girls as well,” she said. “I think of Carrie as a darker version of Juliet Capulet. Both are capable of imaging romantic fantasies and brain-dashing scenes of horror.” She said what makes both writers “masters of terror is their ability to prey on our imaginations and take us inside the suffering minds of their protagonists.”