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"The fascination with fire-arms was one of many elements in Shelley's character which Hogg, a very down-to-earth personality despite all his masterly sarcasms, could never really account for. Another was Shelley's almost maniac disregard, on certain occasions, for the commonplace decencies of public normal public behaviour, as the time when he seized a baby out of its mother's arms while crossing Magdalen Bridge and began earnestly to question it about the nature of its Platonic pre-existence so that he might prove a point in an argument he was having with Hogg concerning metempsychosis."

February232012

Live Reading of Prometheus Unbound in Oxford

Oxford Chamber Theatre will be producing a rehearsed reading by professional actors of Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound in St. Peter’s Church, First Turn, Upper Wolvercote, Oxford, OX2 8AQ, on 26 February 2012 at 2.30. Ten actors, experienced verse readers, will read the work, as a concert of voices. David Jones, former leading light in Oxford University music, now studying voice in London, will use the organ of St. Margaret’s to create a spacious, sensuous relief for the music of Shelley’s verse, which will occasionally turn to song as he sings the choruses. Tickets are £8/£6, available from www.wegottickets.com or on the door. For further information, email ksmafriends@hotmail.com.

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