Lord Byron

Lord Byron Criticism

• Lord Byron: Critical Essays on Drama
  • Introduction
  • Principal Works
  • Criticism: Overviews
    • Byron's Stage Fright: The History of His Ambition and Fear of Writing for the Stage
    • Byron's ‘Mental Theatre’ and the German Classical Precedent
    • Violence, Class Consciousness, and Ideology in Byron's History Plays
    • The Dramas of Byron
    • Hero with a Thousand Faces: The Rhetoric of Byronism
  • Byron and the Drama of Temptation
  • ‘This Gloom … Which Can Avail Thee Nothing’: Cain and Skepticism
  • Criticism: Sardanapalus (1821)
    • Death and Love in Byron's Sardanapalus
    • Fantasy Elements in Byron's Sardanapalus
  • Criticism: The Two Foscari (1821)
    • The Two Foscari: The Silence of Chains
    • Rebels Cosmic and Domestic
  • Further Reading
• Lord Byron: Critical Essays on Poetry
  • Introduction
  • Principal Works
  • Further Reading
  • Criticism
    • The Fatal Bounds of the Will
    • Byron's Strange Perversity of Thought
    • The Narrator of Don Juan
    • The Byronic Pilgrimage to the Absurd
    • Masses and Solids: Byron's View of the External World
    • The Byronic Heroine and Byron's The Corsair
    • Byron's Don Juan: Myth as Psychodrama
    • Politics and Religion in Byron's Heaven and Earth
    • Byron's Laughter: Don Juan and the Hegelian Dialectic
    • Speed and Space: Byron
    • Byron's Beppo: Digression and Contingency