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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 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.

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rdfs:label	Bloody Poetry (en)
rdfs:comment	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 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. (en)
foaf:name	Bloody Poetry (en)
name	Bloody Poetry (en)
dcterms:subject	Plays based on actual events Plays set in England Plays set in the 19th century British plays Plays based on real people 1984 plays Cultural depictions of Lord Byron Cultural depictions of John Polidori Cultural depictions of Mary Shelley Cultural depictions of Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage	Cardiff Royal Court Theatre John William Polidori Percy Bysshe Shelley Richard Holmes (biographer) Chapter Arts Centre Valentine Pelka Plays based on actual events Plays set in England Plays set in the 19th century Mary Shelley Claire Clairmont England British plays Lord Byron Howard Brenton Plays based on real people Fiona Shaw Hampstead Theatre Italy James Aubrey (actor) Jane Gurnett 1984 plays Cultural depictions of Lord Byron Cultural depictions of John Polidori Cultural depictions of Mary Shelley Cultural depictions of Percy Bysshe Shelley Switzerland Utopian Programme (booklet) Haymarket Theatre (Leicester) Manhattan Theatre Club Weapons of Happiness Lynne Meadow William Gaminara George Byron Percy Shelley dbr:Roland_Rees dbr:Foco_Novo dbr:Sue_Burton dbr:The_Brooklyn_Art_Library
sameAs	Bloody Poetry Bloody Poetry Bloody Poetry Bloody Poetry
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characters	John William Polidori Percy Bysshe Shelley Mary Shelley Claire Clairmont George Byron Voice (en) Harriet Westbrook (en)
orig lang	English (en)
place	Haymarket Theatre (Leicester)
premiere	1984-10-01 (xsd:date)
setting	Switzerland, England and Italy 1816-1822 (en)
writer	Howard Brenton
has abstract	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 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. The play takes as its epigraph a comment of Richard Holmes's, “Shelley's life seems more a haunting than a history.” (en)

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