Tag: Reception

Classical Reception in Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound: Politically, and Stylistically.

This essay will focus on the reception of Aeschylus’ Prometheus seen in Shelley’s lyrical drama Prometheus Unbound which was “composed between 1818 and 1820" with a focus on the relationship between Jupiter/Zeus and Prometheus and how this speaks to the political insights Shel...