. "The monster's namelessness became part of the stage tradition as Mary Shelley's story was adapted into serious and comic plays in London and Paris during the decades after the novel's first appearance. Mary Shelley herself attended a performance of Presumption, the first successful stage adaptation of her novel. \"The play bill amused me extremely, for in the list of dramatic personae came _________, by Mr T. Cooke,\u201D she wrote to her friend Leigh Hunt. \"This nameless mode of naming the unnameable is rather good.\" The name of the creator\u2014Frankenstein\u2014soon came to be used to name the creation. That happened within the first decade after the novel was published, but it became cast in concrete after the story was popularized in the famous 1930s Universal film series starring Boris Karloff. The film was based largely on a play by Peggy Webling, performed in London in 1927. Webling's Frankenstein actually does give his creature his name. The Universal film treated the Monster's identity in a manner that reflects its resemblance to Mary Shelley's novel: the name of the actor, not the character, is hidden by a question mark. Nevertheless, the creature soon enough became best known in the popular imagination as \"Frankenstein\"."@en . . . . "Frankenstein's monster (The Modern Prometheus)"@en . . . "Charles Stanton Ogle, Boris Karloff, Christopher Lee, Peter Boyle, Robert De Niro and others"@en . . . . . "Male"@en . . . . . "Frankenstein's Monster"@en . . . "The monster's namelessness became part of the stage tradition as Mary Shelley's story was adapted into serious and comic plays in London and Paris during the decades after the novel's first appearance. Mary Shelley herself attended a performance of Presumption, the first successful stage adaptation of her novel. \"The play bill amused me extremely, for in the list of dramatic personae came _________, by Mr T. Cooke,\u201D she wrote to her friend Leigh Hunt. \"This nameless mode of naming the unnameable is rather good.\""@en . . "\"The Monster\", \"The Creature\", \"The Wretch\", \"The Devil\" and others"@en . .