Publication

2013 - Bloomsbury, London, England

Language

English

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Electronic resource

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  • DDC822.914
  • LCCPR6052.R426

Description

An elegiac and fiery play about poetry and failed utopias, 'Bloody Poetry' follows Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron, and their lovers Mary Shelley and Claire Clairemont, into exile. This strange family, vilified for their private lives and socially banished to the Continent, try on the shores of Lake Geneva to find a new way of living, free of repression and constraint, and filled with love and revolutionary passion. But what emerges is a fascinating tangle of disappointments. 'Bloody Poetry was first presented in 1984 at the Haymarket Theatre, Leicester.

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