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Milord Byron & the Badly-Drawn Pisan Circle

An exile longs for the unfragrant public houses of his wild youth

Jan 16 • Lord Byron's Polished Brow

A Letter Supposed to be written from FLETCHER to HOBHOUSE giving an account of Byron's death in Venice in 1818

A Closet Play for the Faithless Departed

Jan 9 • Lord Byron's Polished Brow

And we're live from Cadiz...

Childe Harold: shameless wight, flaunting wassailer - and ace sports reporter

Jan 7 • Lord Byron's Polished Brow

Lord Byron's Adventures with the Lancashire Witches of Spain

Closet play based on Byron's travelling letters of 1809

Jan 2 • Lord Byron's Polished Brow

The Hero of Mary's Imagination

Mary Shelley's memory brings Byron's "form of beauty" back to luscious life

Dec 28, 2025 • Lord Byron's Polished Brow

Fragment An Of Epistle to Tom Moore

Yuletide closet play of Messianic Import

Dec 24, 2025 • Lord Byron's Polished Brow

On The Change Of Masters at a Great Public School

Violent closet play based on Lord Byron's eponymous 1805 poem

Dec 19, 2025 • Lord Byron's Polished Brow

The Devil’s Drive: An Unfinished Rhapsody

A closet play based on Byron's infernal 1813 poem

Dec 12, 2025 • Lord Byron's Polished Brow

A Contest for Two Contessas from Corfu

Who will win the Heart and/or Mind of the "Grande Poeta Inglese"?

Dec 10, 2025 • Lord Byron's Polished Brow

Polidori: A Fight at the Opera

Closet Play based on Byron's correspondence from Milan, 1816, in which his meddlesome ex-medic meets his match in the orchestra pit

Dec 5, 2025 • Lord Byron's Polished Brow

JOHN MURRAY II: The Daily Torments of a Gentleman Publisher

Closet play in which Lord Byron's put-upon publisher plays possum

Nov 28, 2025 • Lord Byron's Polished Brow

Annesley Hall and Newstead Abbey

The disparate fate of two ancient estates

Nov 25, 2025 • Lord Byron's Polished Brow

George Gordon, Lord Byron: An Enemy to English Etiquette

His Lordship stuns the tobacconists and ill-mannered tourists of Constantinople

Nov 21, 2025 • Lord Byron's Polished Brow

Down and Out of Focus in Piccadilly

It's tropical fruit at dawn for S. T. Coleridge & G. G., Ld. Byron

Nov 14, 2025 • Lord Byron's Polished Brow

Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries

As Leigh Hunt casts nettles upon Byron's grave, critic John Wilson takes up his scythe

Nov 11, 2025 • Lord Byron's Polished Brow

"Parody of a Persian Song of Hafiz"

Closet play based on Byron's 1811 parody on Sir William Jones’s translation of the poet

Nov 7, 2025 • Lord Byron's Polished Brow

Where have all the Dandies gone?

Byron lingers upon "memory's crupper"

Nov 4, 2025 • Lord Byron's Polished Brow

Lines Inscribed upon a CUP Formed from a SKULL

Closet play based on Byron's tribute to his most esteemed drinking vessel

Oct 31, 2025 • Lord Byron's Polished Brow

Lord Byron's South American Speculation

EPIC closet play based on his Lordship's transcontinental aspirations

Oct 24, 2025 • Lord Byron's Polished Brow

Henry James visits Byron's Ravenna

In which the garrulous novelist finds a short moments peace

Oct 22, 2025 • Lord Byron's Polished Brow

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