Lord Byron at Harrow School : Speaking Out, Talking Back, Acting up, Bowing Out.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (241 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Prologue -- 1: Tutor and Tenant -- 2: Virgilian King : 5 July 1804 -- First Interval -- 3:William Henry West Betty -- 4: Villain : 6 June 1805 -- Second Interval -- 5: Shakespearean King : 4 July 1805 -- Epilogue : ''The Sixth of June'' -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
To discern his initial experiments with identity formation, to watch his auditions, his inaugural performances of "Byron"--in the provincial run, so to speak, before his London premiere--to track the emergence of these constructs from a confluence of wondrous adolescent energies is to understand anew why and how enduringly certain events and relationships wrote themselves into the text that Byron famously became."--from the Prologue.
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