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In Britain, at the beginning of the 19th century, few themes and few historical events could have been less easy to evoke publicly, and less acceptable to perform on the stage, than the 17th-century Puritan Revolution and the execution of King Charles I. And yet, within a five-year period, two of the outstanding literary figures of the time decided to challenge this implicit proscription, each writing a tragedy with the unambiguous title of Charles I. I am referring to Percy Bysshe Shelley’s ... |
