Bloody poetry / Howard Brenton.

Author/creator Brenton, Howard, 1942-
Other author Brenton, Howard, 1942-
Format Electronic
PublicationLondon : Bloomsbury, [2013]
Copyright Date©2013
Description1 online resource
Supplemental ContentDrama online

Summary 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.
General noteOriginally published: in print in Plays two. London: Methuen Drama, 1990.
Source of descriptionDescription based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on Feb. 18, 2013).
Genre/formDrama.
Standard identifier# 10.5040/9781408162309.00000075

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