The play, which takes place from 1816 to 1822, follows the true story of famous romantic writers Mary Shelley, her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley; and Lord Byron with his mistress, Claire Clairemont.

Like Shelley and Byron, Godwin was inordinately vain in a megalomaniacal, messianic way, and endlessly loaded guilt on Mary about the indispensability of his writings to the progress of the world.

Shelley’s reputation has suffered more than any of the great English Romantic poets. Always the least read of his contemporaries John Keats and Byron, he was, nevertheless, the finest lyric poet ...

Byron, Shelley, and Now Zelensky. To appreciate the special power of the Ukrainian president, we need to listen closely to his words, and remember the inspiring poets who came before him.

Shelley, who understood Byron thoroughly, was not deceived on that point; he well knew which was the mightier spirit. Shelley, too, not being one of the canters, ...

Tom Sturridge, who currently appears on the Starz show Sweetbitter, plays the enigmatic and eccentric Lord Byron in Mary Shelley.His dark yet vivacious take on the poet is a bold choice. “We had ...

TRELAWNY—Margaret Armstrong—Macmillan ($3). Edward Trelawny knew Shelley some six months, Byron two years, but he wrote (30 years later) the most colorful firsthand report of their strange ...

At the start of the play, Mary Shelley and Ada Lovelace run into each other at Lord Byron's grave. Someone pulls out a bottle of wine. Words and thoughts flow: they have a lot to get off their chests.

Mary Shelley is a more complicated affair, and not just because the story contains lots of sex. (Al Mansour, following British if not Saudi precedent, keeps everything but kissing, hugging, and ...