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Tragic end for exiled shelley ; Exeter's New Theatre will be ringing to the sound of Bloody Poetry for three nights next week.

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From: Express & Echo (Exeter UK)
Date: 20080523
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Exeter's New Theatre will be ringing to the sound of Bloody Poetry for three nights next week.

Starting on Thursday, May 29, the play by Howard Brenton - inspired by Richard Holmes' biography of the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley - will be performed by Exeter's Cygnet Company.

Bloody Poetry is a portrayal of the lives of Shelley; his wife, Mary Godwin Shelley (author of Frankenstein); fellow poet George, Lord Byron; and Mary's step-sister, Claire Clairemont.

Set between the summers of 1816 and 1822, the play opens with Shelley eloping with 16-year-old Mary and Claire from England ...

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