Percy Bysshe Shelley Mary Shelley Claire Clairmont George Byron Dr William Polidori Harriet Westbrook Voice
Date premiered
1 October 1984 (1984-10-01)
Place premiered
Haymarket Theatre Leicester
Original language
English
Setting
Switzerland, England and Italy 1816-1822
Bloody Poetry is a 1984 play by Howard Brenton centring on the lives of Percy Shelley and his circle.
The play had its roots in Brenton's involvement with the small touring company Foco Novo and was the third, and final, show he wrote for them. The initial idea was that Brenton should write a piece based on the life of Shelley, though Brenton was more interested in looking, not at the individual, but at the quartet of Percy, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron and Byron's mistress Claire Clairmont, tying it in with Utopian themes appropriate to the revolutionary spirit of the protagonists. In his introduction to the play Brenton disclaims any interest in moralising over the actions of his characters, as he had in a programme to his earlier play Weapons of Happiness.[1][2]
The play takes as its epigraph a comment of Richard Holmes's, “Shelley's life seems more a haunting than a history.”
^Plays: 2 by Howard Brenton, Methuen, p. xiv 1996 reprint ISBN 978-0-413-61490-2
^"National Theatre" Archived 2012-02-22 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved on 11 October 2009
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