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Byron is a historical play by the British writer Alicia Ramsey, which was first performed in 1908. It depicts the life of the early nineteenth-century writer Lord Byron.^[1]

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In 1922 the play was adapted into a silent film A Prince of Lovers directed by Charles Calvert and starring Howard Gaye as Byron.^[1]

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Topics	Barony of Byron Byronic hero Early life Newstead Abbey Timeline of Lord Byron
People	Anne Isabella, Lady Byron (wife) Ada Lovelace (daughter) Allegra Byron (daughter) John "Mad Jack" Byron (father) Claire Clairmont Nicolo Giraud Contessa Guiccioli Jane Harley John Cam Hobhouse Douglas Kinnaird Lady Caroline Lamb Augusta Leigh (maternal half-sister) Medora Leigh Thomas Moore Isaac Nathan Walter Scott John William Polidori Percy Bysshe Shelley Mary Shelley Edward John Trelawny Michael C. Burgess
Longer poetry	Hours of Idleness (1807) English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809) Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812–1818) The Giaour (1813) The Bride of Abydos (1813) The Corsair (1814) Lara, A Tale (1814) The Siege of Corinth (1816) Parisina (1816) The Prisoner of Chillon (1816) The Dream (1816) Prometheus (1816) "Darkness" (1816) The Lament of Tasso (1817) Beppo (1818) Don Juan (1819–1824; incomplete upon Byron's 1824 death) Mazeppa (1819) The Prophecy of Dante (1819) The Vision of Judgment (1821) The Age of Bronze (1823) The Island (1823)
Plays	Manfred (1817) Marino Faliero (1820) Sardanapalus (1821) The Two Foscari (1821) Cain (1821) Heaven and Earth (1821) Werner (1822) The Deformed Transformed (1822)
Shorter poetry	"Lachin y Gair" (1807) "Epitaph to a Dog" (1808) "Maid of Athens, ere we part" (1810) Hebrew Melodies (1815) "She Walks in Beauty" "The Destruction of Sennacherib" "Fare Thee Well" (1816) Irish Avatar (1821) "So, we'll go no more a roving" (1830)
Prose	Fragment of a Novel (1819) Letters Memoirs
Portrayals	Byron (1908 play) The Bride of Frankenstein (1935 film) The Bad Lord Byron (1949 film) Camino Real (1953 play) Lord Byron (1972 opera) Lady Caroline Lamb (1972 film) Childe Byron (1977 play) Bloody Poetry (1984 play) Gothic (1986 film) Rowing with the Wind (1988 film) Haunted Summer (1988 film) Arcadia (1993 play) Mary Shelley (2017 film) "The Haunting of Villa Diodati" (2020 TV episode)
Related	Villa Diodati
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^ ^a ^b Christine Kenyon-Jones, ed., Byron: The Image of the Poet (Associated University Press, 2008), p. 98

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Byron (play)

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