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The name Dracula, which is now primarily known as the name of a vampire, was for centuries known as the sobriquet of Vlad III. [7] [8] Diplomatic reports and popular stories referred to him as Dracula, Dracuglia, or Drakula already in the 15th century. [7] He himself signed his two letters as "Dragulya" or "Drakulya" in the late 1470s. [9]
Count Dracula (/ ˈ d r æ k j ʊ l ə,-j ə-/) is the title character of Bram Stoker's 1897 gothic horror novel Dracula.He is considered the prototypical and archetypal vampire in subsequent works of fiction.
Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula tells the story of Vlad Dracula, the historical figure who gave Bram Stoker's Dracula his name. Vlad is a dispossessed noble and a patriot who fights the occupation forces of the Turks hoping to avenge the murder of his father by Romanian nobles and the capture of his brother by the Ottoman sultan.
Thanks to "Dracula," Stoker "had a massive impact on popular culture, but is under-appreciated," Cleary told AFP in the Casino at Marino, an opulent 18th-century building near the writer's ...
The claimed connection between the castle and the Dracula legend is tourism-driven. [16] During Stoker's research on the region of Transylvania, he came across accounts of the atrocities committed by Vlad III, and used the Dracula name after reading on the subject; but his inspiration for Dracula was not solely based on the historical figure.
Jonathan Harker, a newly qualified English solicitor, visits Count Dracula at his castle in the Carpathian Mountains to help the Count purchase a house near London. Ignoring the Count's warning, Harker wanders the castle at night and encounters three vampire women; Dracula rescues Harker, and gives the women a small child bound inside a bag.
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Early musical adaptions of Dracula played for camp. [21] At the Dublin Theater Festival in 1965, there was a musical comedy Dearest Dracula.The musical contained 15 songs and received a positive review from Robert B. Byrnes of the Los Angeles Times. [22]