Bloody Poetry

Bloody Poetry
Written by	Howard Brenton
Characters	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.”

Stage history

Bloody Poetry was first performed at the Haymarket Theatre Leicester on 1 October 1984 in a production that later played at the Hampstead Theatre. The director was Roland Rees and the cast was:

Percy Bysshe Shelley – Valentine Pelka
Mary Shelley – Fiona Shaw
Claire Clairmont – Jane Gurnett
George Byron – James Aubrey
Dr William Polidori – William Gaminara
Harriet Westbrook – Sue Burton

The play had its west coast premiere in 1991 at Theatre 40 in Beverly Hills, under the direction of Keith Fowler, drawing excellent critical reception and winning the Dramalogue award for “Outstanding Direction.”

Nightingale Theatre produced the play in the summer of 1994 at The Union Chapel, Islington, London. Kate Godfrey (Claire Clairmont), Jane Gooderham (Harriet Westbrook), Melee Hutton (Mary Shelley), Mark Norton (Percy Bysshe Shelley), Peter Quilter (George Byron). with Cordelia Monsey directing.

The play played at the Manhattan Theatre Club in 1987 in a production directed by Lynne Meadow^[3] and was revived in 1988 at the Royal Court Theatre and in 2007 at the Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff.^[4]

The play was staged by emerging company Invulnerable Nothings at The Brooklyn Art Library in 2016.

Notes

^ 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
^ Review Retrieved on 11 October 2009
^ Review Retrieved on 11 October 2009

External links

Bloody Poetry at the Internet Off-Broadway Database

v t e Works by Howard Brenton
Major plays	Christie in Love Magnificence The Churchill Play Weapons of Happiness Epsom Downs The Romans in Britain Bloody Poetry Greenland Paul In Extremis Never So Good Anne Boleyn 55 Days Drawing the Line Doctor Scroggy's War Lawrence After Arabia
With David Hare	Pravda
Television	Dead Head
See also	Portable Theatre Company

v t e Mary Shelley
Works	History of a Six Weeks' Tour Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus Mathilda Proserpine Midas Valperga "Maurice" The Last Man The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck "The Mortal Immortal" Lodore Falkner Rambles in Germany and Italy Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men
Family	Percy Bysshe Shelley (husband) Sir Percy Shelley, 3rd Baronet (son) Mary Wollstonecraft (mother) William Godwin (father) Fanny Imlay (half-sister) Claire Clairmont (stepsister)
Portrayals	Bloody Poetry (1984 play) Gothic (1986 film) Rowing with the Wind (1988 film) Haunted Summer (1988 film) Mary Shelley (2017 film) "The Haunting of Villa Diodati" (2020 TV episode)
Related	Mounseer Nongtongpaw Frankenstein in popular culture Lord Byron John William Polidori Thomas Jefferson Hogg Villa Diodati Frankenstein Day

v t e Percy Bysshe Shelley
Plays	The Cenci (1819) Prometheus Unbound (1820) Hellas (1822)
Fiction	Zastrozzi (1810) St. Irvyne (1811)
Non-fiction	"The Necessity of Atheism" (1811) "Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things" (1811) "A Letter to Lord Ellenborough" (1812) A Vindication of Natural Diet (1813) History of a Six Weeks' Tour (1817) "On Frankenstein" (1817, published 1832) A Philosophical View of Reform (1819–20, published 1920) "A Defence of Poetry" (published posthumously, 1840)
Poetry collections	Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire (1810) Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson (1810) Posthumous Poems (1824)
Short poems	"The Devil's Walk" (1812) "Mutability" (1816) "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" (1817) "Mont Blanc" (1817) "Ozymandias" (1818) "Love's Philosophy" (1819) "Ode to the West Wind" (1820) "To a Skylark" (1820) "The Cloud" (1820) "One Word is Too Often Profaned" (1822) "Music, When Soft Voices Die" (1824) "A Dirge" (1824) "England in 1819" (1834)
Long poems	Queen Mab (1813) Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude (1816) The Revolt of Islam (1818) Rosalind and Helen, A Modern Eclogue (1819) Epipsychidion (1821) Adonaïs (1821) Julian and Maddalo (1824) The Witch of Atlas (1824) The Triumph of Life (1824) The Masque of Anarchy (1832)
Collaborations with Mary Shelley	History of a Six Weeks' Tour (1817) Proserpine (1820) Midas (1820)
Adaptations	Wolfstein; or, The Mysterious Bandit (1822) Wolfstein, The Murderer; or, The Secrets of a Robber's Cave (1850) Zastrozzi, The Master of Discipline (1977) Zastrozzi, A Romance (1986)
Places	Keats–Shelley Memorial House Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle Rising Universe Shelley's Cottage Shelley Memorial Villa Diodati
Authorship debates	Frankenstein authorship question The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein
People	Mary Shelley (wife) Sir Percy Shelley, 3rd Baronet (son) Timothy Shelley (father) Sir Bysshe Shelley (grandfather) Lord Byron Claire Clairmont William Godwin (father-in-law) Thomas Jefferson Hogg John Keats Thomas Medwin Thomas Love Peacock Edward John Trelawny
Biographies	The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley Shelley's Vegetarianism Shelley: A Life Story
Portrayals	Bride of Frankenstein (1935 film) Bloody Poetry (1984 play) Gothic (1986 film) Haunted Summer (1988 film) Rowing with the Wind (1988 film) Mary Shelley (2017 film) "The Haunting of Villa Diodati" (2020 TV episode)
Related	Shelley Memorial Award

v t e Lord Byron
Topics	Barony of Byron Byronic hero Early life Newstead Abbey Timeline of Lord Byron
People	Anne Isabella, Lady Byron (wife) Ada Lovelace (daughter) Allegra Byron (daughter) John "Mad Jack" Byron (father) Claire Clairmont Nicolo Giraud Contessa Guiccioli Jane Harley John Cam Hobhouse Douglas Kinnaird Lady Caroline Lamb Augusta Leigh (paternal half-sister) Medora Leigh Thomas Moore Isaac Nathan Walter Scott John William Polidori Percy Bysshe Shelley Mary Shelley Edward John Trelawny Michael C. Burgess
Longer poetry	Hours of Idleness (1807) English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809) Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812–1818) The Giaour (1813) The Bride of Abydos (1813) The Corsair (1814) Lara, A Tale (1814) The Siege of Corinth (1816) Parisina (1816) The Prisoner of Chillon (1816) The Dream (1816) Prometheus (1816) "Darkness" (1816) The Lament of Tasso (1817) Beppo (1818) Don Juan (1819–1824; incomplete upon Byron's 1824 death) Mazeppa (1819) The Prophecy of Dante (1819) The Vision of Judgment (1821) The Age of Bronze (1823) The Island (1823)
Plays	Manfred (1817) Marino Faliero (1820) Sardanapalus (1821) The Two Foscari (1821) Cain (1821) Heaven and Earth (1821) Werner (1822) The Deformed Transformed (1822)
Shorter poetry	"Lachin y Gair" (1807) "Epitaph to a Dog" (1808) "Maid of Athens, ere we part" (1810) Hebrew Melodies (1815) "She Walks in Beauty" "The Destruction of Sennacherib" "Fare Thee Well" (1816) Irish Avatar (1821) "So, we'll go no more a roving" (1830)
Prose	Fragment of a Novel (1819) Letters Memoirs
Portrayals	Byron (1908 play) The Bride of Frankenstein (1935 film) The Bad Lord Byron (1949 film) Camino Real (1953 play) Lord Byron (1972 opera) Lady Caroline Lamb (1972 film) Childe Byron (1977 play) Bloody Poetry (1984 play) Gothic (1986 film) Rowing with the Wind (1988 film) Haunted Summer (1988 film) Arcadia (1993 play) Mary Shelley (2017 film) "The Haunting of Villa Diodati" (2020 TV episode)
Related	Villa Diodati
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