Dramatisations and fictionalisations

Dramatisations and fictionalisations Mary Shelley Wordsworth and Romanticism

'Defiant and passionate': a new production of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

by Andrew Weltch Compared to the film adaptations, stage versions of Frankenstein are surprisingly rare, despite a near-90-year head-start. Or…

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Claire Clairmont Dramatisations and fictionalisations Film reviews Lord Byron Mary Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley Wordsworth and Romanticism

Five go mad at the Villa Diodati: Ken Russell’s ‘Gothic’

by Andrew Weltch The creation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a fascinating tale in its own right. In the summer…

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Dramatisations and fictionalisations Lord Byron Wordsworth and Romanticism

‘Becoming Manfred’: Tchaikovsky and Byron

by David Perkins Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s festival overture, The Year 1812, (popularly known as the 1812 Overture), is probably one…

scratch23rd October 2017

Contemporary creative responses Dramatisations and fictionalisations Samuel Taylor Coleridge Wordsworth and Romanticism

'The Albatross': From Rime to opera

by Sinéad O'Neill Melville was right when he wrote, of the Albatross, ‘that white phantom sails in all imaginations.’ It…

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Contemporary creative responses Dramatisations and fictionalisations Samuel Taylor Coleridge William Wordsworth Wordsworth and Romanticism

Wordsworth in Leicestershire

by Jeanne Rae Coleorton is an unremarkable village in North West Leicestershire, where the landscape was defined for almost 500…

scratch10th April 2017

Claire Clairmont Dramatisations and fictionalisations Lord Byron Mary Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley William Godwin Wordsworth and Romanticism

Fictionalising 1816: The death of Harriet Shelley

by Lynn Shepherd The Shelleys and their circle have inspired hundreds of books, plays and films over the last two…

scratch9th November 2016

Claire Clairmont Dramatisations and fictionalisations Lord Byron Mary Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley William Godwin Wordsworth and Romanticism

Fictionalising 1816: The suicide of Fanny Imlay

by Lynn Shepherd I write literary mysteries. Taking the classic literature of the 19th century as the inspiration for new…

scratch9th October 2016

Dramatisations and fictionalisations Film reviews

Film review: Bright Star

By Carla Ferreira “Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art— / Not in lone splendour hung aloft the…

scratch31st March 2015

Dramatisations and fictionalisations Film reviews Wordsworth and Romanticism

Film review: Pandaemonium

by Esther Rutter Anyone who is even faintly familiar with the major events in the lives of Wordsworth and Coleridge…

scratch24th November 2014

Dramatisations and fictionalisations Mary Shelley Wordsworth and Romanticism

Frankenstein in Hollywood

by Barry Forshaw ‘It’s alive! It’s alive!’ gasps the English actor Colin Clive, working himself into a paroxysm over the…

scratch28th June 2014

Dramatisations and fictionalisations

'Defiant and passionate': a new production of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Five go mad at the Villa Diodati: Ken Russell’s ‘Gothic’

‘Becoming Manfred’: Tchaikovsky and Byron

'The Albatross': From Rime to opera

Wordsworth in Leicestershire

Fictionalising 1816: The death of Harriet Shelley

Fictionalising 1816: The suicide of Fanny Imlay

Film review: Bright Star

Film review: Pandaemonium

Frankenstein in Hollywood

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