Bloody Poetry, Jermyn Street Theatre by James Woodall

In opening words cited in the programme for Primavera's new production of Howard Brenton's Bloody Poetry (1984) the playwright states he wanted to remind people of "England's radical, republican tradition" as "Thatcher set about shredding it". So he chose to dramatise sections of the lives of Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley in self-exile, post-Waterloo, in Switzerland and Italy. It was an odd choice.read more

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