Shelley's Radical Stages

Dana Van Kooy draws critical attention to Percy Bysshe Shelley as a dramatist and argues that his dramas represent a critical paradigm of romanticism in which history is 'staged'. This book examines each of Shelley's dramas as a radical cultural performance that reformulates the familiar experiences of war, revolution, slavery and domestic tyranny. It also makes clear how Shelley as a writer was engaged in nineteenth-century theatre, print politics, and the political protests that followed in the aftermath of Waterloo.