Bloody Poetry

RoughCast Theatre Co presents Bloody Poetry by Howard Brenton

Originally staged at the Royal Court in 1987, Bloody Poetry explores the relationship between the poets Byron and Shelley and their wives and lovers. We jump from Switzerland to Italy by way of London, Bath and Dover Beach, from 1816 to 1818 to 1822, the year that Shelley drowned, mourned by those closest to him among them the now Lord Byron and his widow, the author of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley. It's an exciting mix of Romanticism and radicalism, leavened with a fair dose of humour too.