Byron (play)

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]

## Adaptation

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Main article: A Prince of Lovers

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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Lord Byron

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 (paternal 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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## Notes

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1. ^ a b Christine Kenyon-Jones, ed., Byron: The Image of the Poet (Associated University Press, 2008), p. 98

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