Lord ByronSeries Editors: Kinley E. Roby, Northeastern University; Herbert Sussman, Northeastern University; Joseph Bartolomeo, University of Massachusetts; George Economou, University of Oklahoma; Arthur F. Kinney, University of Massachusetts. TWAYNES UNITED STATES AUTHORS, ENGLISH AUTHORS, and WORLD AUTHORS Series present concise critical introductions to great writers and their works. Devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an authors work, each study takes account of major literary trends and important scholarly contributions and provides new critical insights with an original point of view. An Authors Series volume addresses readers ranging from advanced high school students to university professors. The book suggests to the informed reader new ways of considering a writers work. A reader new to the work under examination will, after reading the Authors Series, be compelled to turn to the originals, bringing to the reading a basic knowledge and fresh critical perspectives. Each volume features: a critical, interpretive study and explication of the authors works; a brief biography of the author; an accessible chronology outlining the life, work, and relevant historical background of the author; aids for further study -- complete notes and references, a selected annotated bibliography, and an index; and a readable style presented in a manageable length. |
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Thus when Byron turned his hand to playwriting , as he first did with Manfred ( 1817 ) , he explicitly and repeatedly indicated that his works were not meant for staging — and he lashed out when Marino Faliero was put on the boards ...
proved too subtle for some readers — notably those who saw Manfred as plagiarism without recognizing , as Goethe himself did , that it offers the Faust motif in an altogether different key ) —Byron's mixed mythology ” proves a larger ...
Act 2 discloses more a personal reason for Manfred's alienation . Having taken leave of the hunter , he encounters the Witch of the Alps , presumably a representation of natural beauty , who rises up beneath the sunbow shimmering on an ...