Byron (play)

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Byron is a historical play by the British writer Alicia Ramsey, which was first performed in 1908. It depicts the life of the early nineteenth-century writer Lord Byron. [1]

Adaptation

In 1922 the play was adapted into a silent film A Prince of Lovers directed by Charles Calvert and starring Howard Gaye as Byron. [1]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Christine Kenyon-Jones, ed., Byron: The Image of the Poet (Associated University Press, 2008), p. 98


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