The Plays of Lord Byron: Critical Essays

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Robert F. Gleckner, Robert Gleckner, Bernard G. Beatty
Liverpool University Press, Jan 1, 1997 - Literary Criticism - 399 pages
A collection bringing together in a single volume a number of the best twentieth-century essays on Byron’s dramas, together with comprehensive bibliographies on each of them.

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Contents

Venice Preserved MALCOLM KELSALL
33
Marino Faliero
69
Byrons Marino Faliero and the Force
87
Marino Faliero and the Fault of Byrons Satire
114
The Two Foscari
133
The Two Foscari
151
Sardanapalus
181
Effeminate Character SUSAN J WOLFSON
201
an Unorthodox
253
Byron and the Mark of Cain
273
Orthodoxy and Unorthodoxy in Heaven and Earth
291
The Devil as Doppelgänger in The Deformed
321
The Ideological Dimensions of Byrons
347
Werner PETER J MANNING
363
Bibliography
379
Copyright

Byrons Cain and the Antimythological Myth
233

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About the author (1997)

Bernard Beatty is Senior Fellow in the School of English at the University of Liverpool and Associate Fellow in the School of Divinity at St Andrews. From 1988 to 2005 he was Editor of the Byron Journal. In 2019 he was awarded the International Byron Societies' Lifetime Achievement Award.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Plays of Lord Byron: Critical Essays
Volume 29 of Liverpool English texts and studies
EditorsRobert F. Gleckner, Robert Gleckner, Bernard G. Beatty
PublisherLiverpool University Press, 1997
ISBN0853238812, 9780853238812
Length399 pages
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Literary Criticism / Drama
  
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