Romanticism and Popular Culture

This evolving bibliography collects media that represent Romantic-era works and historical figures in fictional contexts. We welcome feedback and additions from the RC community.

Theater

Aged 26 Anne Crawford Flexner 1936
Arcadia Tom Stoppard 1993
Poster of movie adaptation of Blithe Spirit Blithe Spirit 1941
Bloody Poetry Howard Brenton 1985
Camino Real Tennessee Williams 1953
Charles Lamb Alice Brown 1924
Chatterton Alfred de Vigny 1834
Childe Byron: a play in two acts Romulus Linney 1981
Come of Age Paul Morrissey 1934
Crede Byron Fanny Heaslip Lea 1936
Day of Wrath 2016
I due Foscari Giuseppe Verdi 1844
Il corsaro Giuseppe Verdi 1848
In Lambeth 1989
Lamia performance image Lamia: A Dance-Theater Exploration Suzanne Karpinski 2016
Lord Byron Maurice Ferber 1924
Lord Byron at the Opera Sir Herbert Edward Read 1963
Love and Lord Byron Cale Young Rice 1963
Mad Shelley: A Dramatic Life in Five Acts, Evolving the Perception of a Biographical Character in Dramatic Play Form Elma Dangerfield 1936
Mary Shelley 2012
Parisina Gaetano Donizetti 1833
Parisina Pietro Mascagni 1916
Portrait of Mrs. W. Josephine Peabody 1922
Robert Burns John Drinkwater 1925
Rowley and Chatterton in the Shade George Hardinge 1782
Second Spring Emmet Lavery 1938
Shelley William Goodchild 1934
Shelley; or, The Idealist Ann Jellicoe 1966
The Bard of Mary Redcliffe Ernest Lacy 1910
The Coast of Illyria Glenn Jordan 1949
The Fool Edward Bond 1976
The Machine-Wreckers Ernst Toller 1923
Tyger Adrian Mitchell 1971