Presumption; or, The Fate of Frankenstein (1823)

In Richard Brinsley Peake’s 1823 play adaptation of Frankenstein, the creature is portrayed as being a brute who is unable to speak. The creature’s physical appearance is described in the beginning of the play as: “dark black flowing hair – a la Octavian – his face, hands, arms, and legs all bare, being one colour, the same as his body, which is a light blue or French gray cotton dress, fitting quite close, as if it were his flesh, with a slate colour scarf round his middle, passing over one shoulder” (Kinney).