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Howard Brenton
Bloody Poetry
by Howard Brenton
Synopsis
Full Length Drama / 3m 2f / Bare stage This fascinating drama staged to acclaim in London and New York has in its cast of characters Lord Byron Percy Bysshe Shelley Mary Shelley and Claire Goodwin.
The play is about radicalism artistic political and more.
Taking place in Italy it concerns the characters' various ideas about radical politics and free love.
Along the way a number of serious questions are raised not the least of which is why fervent radicals seem so often to be done in
Press Reviews
"Radicalism, artistic defiance, an intellectual rage. These are the virtues celebrated in this extraordinary dream play which begins, as it ends, on a foreign shore."
— London Financial Times
"A phantasmagoric play...Brenton is celebrating the idea of the committed artist who seeks to stir and provoke sullen, defeated, bourgeois England. At the same time with clear eyed honesty, he shows how difficult it is to upset the moral order."
— London Guardian
Publication
Publisher Samuel French
Year 2010
Binding Paperback
Pages 108
Place New York
Language English
ISBN-13 9780573690389
ISBN-10 0573690383
LCCN gb91022374
Bloody Poetry is a British play written by Howard Brenton and published by Samuel French in New York (2010).
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Restrictions: Major Markets Only (US) / Standard Restriction (UK)
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