Lord Byron at Harrow School: Speaking Out, Talking Back, Acting Up, Bowing OutJHU Press, 26.06.2000 г. - 221 страници The first book-length scholarly examination of the four critically formative years of Byron's public school experience, 1801-1805 How did Byron become "Byron"? In Lord Byron at Harrow School: Speaking Out, Talking Back, Acting Up, Bowing Out, Paul Elledge locates one origin of the poet's personae in the dramatic recitations young Byron performed at Harrow School. This is the first book-length scholarly examination of the four critically formative years of Byron's public school experience, 1801 to 1805, when Harrow enjoyed high subscription and fame under Dr. Joseph Drury, headmaster. Finding its genesis in the boy's intrepid appearance on three Speech Day programs, the book argues that Byron's early performances addressed anxieties, conflicts, rivalries, and ambitions that were instrumental in shaping the poet's character, career, and verse. Elledge carefully examines the historical and biographical contexts to Byron's Harrow performances, showing their relevance to Byron's physical and psychic landscapes at the time—his connections to his mother and half-sister, his headmasters and tutors, his Harrow intimates and rivals, his lameness, his London theatrical spectatorship. Byron's performances in the characters of King Latinus from the Aeneid, Zanga the Moor from Edward Young's The Revenge, and King Lear provide an opportunity to examine his early experiments with self-presentation: as Elledge argues, these performances are "auditions or trials of performative and autotherapeutic strategies, subsequently refined and polished in the mature verse." Throughout, Elledge reads the boy for the sake of reading the poet; he shows how young Byron's introduction to theatricality at Harrow School prepared him to make a confident and spectacular debut on Europe's cultural stage. "His selection of texts for declaiming—the discourse of two kings and a show-stealing, scene-chewing villain—participates in a larger pattern of deliberate self-fashioning that began at least as early as Byron's Harrow years and evolved into the elaborate mode and vogue of self-representation that partially, with his hefty patronage, helped to define the era. To discern his initial experiments with identity formation, to watch his auditions, his inaugural performances of "Byron"—in the provincial run, so to speak, before his London premiere—to track the emergence of these constructs from a confluence of wondrous adolescent energies is to understand anew why and how enduringly certain events and relationships wrote themselves into the text that Byron famously became."—from the Prologue |
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... John Murray archives , closed during the years of my research while another author completes her biography of the poet for his publishers . Carl Miller of London agreeably furnished a manuscript copy of his produced but not yet ...
... : Letters and Journals . 6 vols . London : John Murray , 1898-1902 . Tyerman C. J. Tyerman , " Byron's Harrow , " Byron Journal 17 ( 1989 ) , 17-39 . Lord Byron at Harrow School Prologue Iconoclast , Maverick , xiii Abbreviations.
... John Dennis carried the title of " Orator " and boys regularly recited the Contio Latina , a retrospective on the year , before the governors ' annual council.3 Dra- matic performances at the school , staged by boys and possibly framed ...
... John Col- let's stipulation that the High Master's job performance be annually evaluated by " apposers " who tested both masters and boys by putting academic questions to them ; upon proof of the High Master's satisfac- tory execution ...
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Tutor and Tenant | 16 |
Virgilian King 5 July 1804 | 44 |
First Interval | 64 |
William Henry West Betty | 85 |
Villain 6 June 1805 | 98 |
Second Interval | 135 |
Shakespearean King 4 July 1805 | 140 |
The Sixth of June | 165 |
Notes | 169 |
Selected Bibliography | 207 |
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