Manfred (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Lord George Gordon Byron
- First Published: 1817
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Poetic
- Time of Work: Indeterminate
- Genres: Poetry, Closet drama
- Subjects: Magic or magicians, Love or romance, Europe or Europeans, Poetry or poets, Social life, Antiheroes, England or English people, Hell, Devils or demons, Evil
- Locales: Alps
Places Discussed
Gothic gallery. The play begins by evoking mystery and the supernatural. The gallery is not described, but its Gothic nature suggests pointed arches and ribbed vaults which emphasize Manfred’s towering sense of being oppressed by “a continuance of enduring thought.” As immortal beings the spirits cannot cope with his quest for “self- oblivion” and his rejection of being “coop’d in clay.”
*Jungfrau (YEWNG-frow). Peak in Switzerland’s Bernese Alps on whose cliffs Manfred is ready to end his life, even though he does not know if death will...
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