Byron, George Gordon, Lord
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Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788–1824), English poet, author of several plays in verse which were staged with little success. Only one was produced during his lifetime,
Marino Faliero (1821), seen at
Drury Lane.
Werner (1830) was first produced by
Macready, also at Drury Lane;
Sardanapalus (1834) and
The Two Foscari (1838) likewise owed their first production to Macready.
Manfred, a dramatic poem, was produced in 1834.
Cain, written in 1821, does not appear to have been produced in England, but has been several times translated into German. Byron's letters are full of references to theatrical matters, but his plays read better than they act.
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Birth of Lord George Gordon December 26th, 1751.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: History Today; 12/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Huntly and subsequently Dukes of Gordon, had a long and colourful history...thought all of them were mad. Lord George Gordon, the youngest child of the 3rd...against Roman Catholics. Lord George's own forebears had been Catholics...
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Ancestral voices prophesying what? The moving text in Byron's 'Marino Faliero' and 'Sardanapalus'.(dramatist Lord George Gordon Byron)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Texas Studies in Literature and Language; 9/22/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...journals, all dramatic scripts designed for production, in London theaters in particular, were obliged to be submitted to the Lord Chamberlain's office no later than two weeks before performance in order to be inspected for inflammatory radical sentiments...
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'Don Juan,' "a problem, like all things." (Lord George Gordon Byron)
Magazine article from: Papers on Language & Literature; 6/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; From its first printing in 1819 till now--nearly two centuries later--readers have disputed the big ideas and real values of Don Juan. Its problematical genius appears to resist all ideological interpretations and themes. Scanning its ottava rimas, we sense something difficult to recognize and
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The Byronic in Jane Austen's persuasion and "Pride and Prejudice".(Lord George Gordon Byron)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; Although Austen and Byron are often considered to be irreconcilable opposites, in this article I argue that Austen engaged closely with Byron's poetry and drew inspiration from some of his most popular poems. The first part of the article focuses on Romantic, and specifically Byronic, undercurrents
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"I am more fit to die than people think": Byron on immortality.(Lord George Gordon Byron)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Christianity and Literature; 3/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; "What is PoetryThe Feeling of a Former world and a Future." Byron, Ravenna Journal Elizabeth Longford affirms a commonly accepted view that Byron "mocked the idea of Christian immortality" by citing one of his best-known letters on the subject: "And our carcases, which are to rise again, are they
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Byron and the Scottish Spenserians.(George Gordon, Lord Byron)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Studies in Romanticism; 3/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; Poems in Series "I SING THE SOFA," BEGINS THE TASK. COWPER WAS ASSIGNED THIS TOPIC by a lady fond of blank verse: "He obeyed; and having much leisure, connected another subject with it; and pursuing the train of thought, to which his situation and turn of mind led him, brought forth at length,
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Byron and Expatriate Nostalgia.(George Gordon, Lord Byron)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Studies in Romanticism; 3/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; "And Loch-na-gar with Ida looked o'er Troy" --The Island NOSTALGIA IS A CONCEPT ENDURINGLY FASHIONABLE IN BYRON STUDIES--suggestively discussed in J. Drummond Bone's "Byron, Scott, and Scottish Nostalgia," and recently explored to fine effect in Stephen Cheeke's Byron and Place. (1) The
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Introduction: Byron's Scots and Byron's Scotland.(George Gordon, Lord Byron)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Studies in Romanticism; 3/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; "WE HAVE BEEN FEEDING ON STRAWBERRIES AND MILK AND HAVE made jam of them but our sugar ran out and we were forced to have done We hear the cuckoo all day long Thus we could almost imagine ourselves at home." This description of high tea in the Himalayas, a repast taken regularly after climbing some
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The grifter: first he robbed one of the great robber barons of New York's gilded age. Then he was abducted in Fort Garry. Lord Gordon lived large. But there was a price to pay.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Beaver: Exploring Canada's History; 12/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...wealthy aristocrat, why shouldn't Lord Gordon Gordon be welcome in the homes of leading...the Wizard of Wall Street. Lord Gordon seems to have been really Hubert...the bogus lord, he told Mayor George A. Brackett of Minneapolis. And...
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A conversation on Byron with Jason Shinder.(George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron)(Interview)
Magazine article from: The American Poetry Review; 11/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; FROM BEPPO 'Tis known, at least it should be, that throughout All countries of the Catholic persuasion, Some weeks before Shrove Tuesday comes about, The people take their fill of recreation, And buy repentance, ere they grow devout, However high their rank, or low their station, With fiddling,
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Lord George Gordon
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Lord George Gordon 1751-93, English agitator, whose activities resulted in the tragic Gordon riots of 1780 in London. In 1779, Gordon assumed leadership of the Protestant Association, an organization...
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Gordon, Lord George
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Gordon, Lord George (1751–93). Soon after his election to Parliament in 1774 Lord George, third son of the 3rd duke of Gordon, began to exhibit signs of mental derangement and religious...
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Byron, George Gordon, Lord
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788–1824), English poet, author of several plays in verse which were staged with little success. Only one was...
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Charles George Gordon
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Charles George Gordon The English soldier, adventurer, and popular hero Charles George Gordon (1833-1885) was known as "Chinese...Woolwich on Jan. 28, 1833, Charles George Gordon was the son of a lieutenant general...
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Gordon riots
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
Gordon riots Anti-Catholic riots in London in 1780. They were led by Lord George Gordon (1751–93), who objected...people killed before order was restored. Gordon was acquitted of high treason, but was...
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