August 2004

New at Romantic Circles: Wat Tyler

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Romantic Circles is very pleased to announce a new electronic edition of Robert Southey's historical dramatic poem about the 1382 Peasants' Rebellion, Wat Tyler. This important play was written in 1794, at an important moment politically, but remained unpublished until 1817, when a series of pirated editions appeared, printed by publishers intent on embarrassing the now-Poet Laureate Southey.

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Romantic Circles Redesigned

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The Romantic Circles Website is pleased to announce officially what many of you will have noticed already--our new site design, the fine work of Site Manager Joseph Byrne and the first complete redesign since 1996. Click on the logo above, visit the site, and send us your feedback.

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Romulus Linney to give Marchand Lecture

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The Byron Society of America is pleased to announce that the playwright Romulus Linney will deliver the 5th Annual Leslie A. Marchand Memorial Lecture at the University of Delaware on Friday, 8 October 2004, at 4:00 p.m. A reception for all in attendance will follow from 5:15 until approximately 7:30 p.m.

(note: previously, this entry reported the date erroneously as 8 September. The correct date is 8 October.)

Many of you know Romulus Linney as the author of the successful play "Childe Byron," and some of you will recall that he and his daughter, the actress Laura Linney, read a scene from that play at the Hofstra Byron Conference some years ago. Linney's lecture will be "My Life with Byron."

The Theatre Conference recently offered the following summary of Linney's career:

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SoHo Rep Production of Frankenstein

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It has just been announced that Soho Rep theater company in New York in conjunction with the Brooklyn troupe, The Flying Machine, will co-present a new theatrical adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, to run Dec. 9, 2004-Jan. 8, 2005. The treatment was written by Joshua Carlebach, and the show was developed during a July 24–26, 2003, workshop. The production will make use of mime, dance, music, puppets and props.

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4 August 1792

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On yesterday's date in 1792 Percy Bysshe Shelley was born in Sussex. See this review by Nora Crook of The Shelleys of Field Place, as well as an earlier Romantic Circles Editors' Dispatch column by the book's author. In textual commemoration, Neil Fraistat makes available the following opening stanzas of Queen Mab, Canto IX (a sneak preview of Volume II of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley, now at press, to be published in December), which imagine nothing less than the utopian renovation of the world.

O happy Earth! reality of Heaven!
To which those restless souls that ceaselessly
Throng through the human universe, aspire;
Thou consummation of all mortal hope!
Thou glorious prize of blindly-working will! 5
Whose rays, diffused throughout all space and time,
Verge to one point and blend forever there:

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NASSR 2004 in Colorado (reminder)

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This seems a good time to post a reminder of the NASSR 2004 conference, "Romantic Cosmopolitanism," to be held at the University of Colorado, Boulder, 9-12 September 2004. The conference Website contains a program, registration form (which must be printed out and mailed), and information on lodging, special events, etc.