Samuel Johnson quipped that even the admirers of John Milton’s epic never wished it “longer than it is.” But “Paradise Lost” ...

Aija Ozolins Dreams and Doctrines: Dual Strands in Frankenstein In her Journal the entry made by Mary Shelley for February 22, 1815, records the birth of a seven-month baby that was "not expected to ...

Howard Brenton’s 1984 play may have taken inspiration from the fraught times in which it was written, but here director Sophia Orr directly references 80s fashion and music throughout in this ...

She eloped with the married Percy Bysshe Shelley at a young age, facing social ostracism and enduring the deaths of several children. The tragic drowning of Percy Shelley in 1822 left her a widow ...

The Younger Memnon may be most famous because it is said to have inspired the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley to write the poem "Ozymandias" — the Greek name for Ramesses II. Egyptology was a ...

Shelley’s angry, violent poem was written in direct response to the Peterloo Massacre in Manchester in 1819, in which a demonstration in favour of parliamentary reform was attacked by local yeomanry, ...