Bloody poetry /

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Author / Creator:	Brenton, Howard, 1942-
Imprint:	London : Bloomsbury, [2013] ©2013
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Drama.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12668976

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Other uniform titles:	Brenton, Howard, 1942- Plays two.
ISBN:	9781408162309.00000075
Notes:	Originally published: in print in Plays two. London: Methuen Drama, 1990. Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on Feb. 18, 2013).
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.
Standard no.:	10.5040/9781408162309.00000075

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