{"id":18914,"date":"2017-09-06T13:14:08","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T17:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/?p=18914"},"modified":"2020-10-08T15:59:27","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T19:59:27","slug":"dramatic-reading-percy-shelleys-prometheus-unbound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/dramatic-reading-percy-shelleys-prometheus-unbound\/","title":{"rendered":"Dramatic Reading of Percy Shelley&#8217;s Prometheus Unbound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A dramatic reading of Percy Shelley&#8217;s <em>Prometheus Unbound<\/em> will take place on <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Wednesday, October 25, 3:00 -5:00 pm<\/strong><\/span><\/em> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/theclarice.umd.edu\/venues\/cafritz-foundation-theatre\">Cafritz Foundation Theatre<\/a>. The show is directed by MITH&#8217;s intern and Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies graduate student Victoria Scrimer. Victoria has been working closely with extant draft and fair copy manuscripts of\u00a0<em>Prometheus Unbound<\/em> by encoding them for the Shelley-Godwin Archive. The show will feature digital images and transcriptions from the Archive to highlight poignant passages and unused textual variants.<\/p>\n<p>From the Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies department <a href=\"http:\/\/tdps.umd.edu\/event\/2013-2014\/wednesday-lecture-series-2\">blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In collaboration with the Maryland Institute of Technology in the Humanities (MITH), TDPS presents a dramatic reading of Percy Shelley\u2019s rarely-performed lyric drama, Prometheus Unbound featuring digital imagery of Shelley\u2019s original manuscripts.<\/p>\n<p>William Godwin, Percy Shelley\u2019s father-in-law, is famously quoted as saying \u201cGod himself has no right to be a tyrant\u201d and in many ways that is what Prometheus Unbound movingly professes. A condemnation of slavery in all forms, Prometheus Unbound is perhaps Shelley\u2019s best-known and most beloved work. Inspired by Aeschylus\u2019 classical Prometheia trilogy, Shelley adapts the mythological story of the Titan who gave man fire, refiguring the fate of mankind\u2019s champion and the fall of the tyrant, Jupiter. It is a drama of Romantic ideals&#8211; suffering, endurance, and freedom&#8211; that is as relevant in today\u2019s socio-political climate of resistance as it was two centuries ago.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, October 25, 3-5PM, Cafritz Foundation Theatre<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dramatic reading of Percy Shelley&#8217;s Prometheus Unbound will take place on Wednesday, October 25, 3:00 -5:00 pm at the Cafritz Foundation Theatre. The show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[65,69,77],"tags":[174,176],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dramatic Reading of Percy Shelley&#039;s Prometheus Unbound &ndash; Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/dramatic-reading-percy-shelleys-prometheus-unbound\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dramatic Reading of Percy Shelley&#039;s Prometheus Unbound &ndash; Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A dramatic reading of Percy Shelley&#8217;s Prometheus Unbound will take place on Wednesday, October 25, 3:00 -5:00 pm at the Cafritz Foundation Theatre. The show [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/dramatic-reading-percy-shelleys-prometheus-unbound\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UMD.MITH\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-09-06T17:14:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-10-08T19:59:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/MITH-logostack-square-grn.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"300\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"300\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/\",\"name\":\"Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":\"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/?s={search_term_string}\",\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/dramatic-reading-percy-shelleys-prometheus-unbound\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/dramatic-reading-percy-shelleys-prometheus-unbound\/\",\"name\":\"Dramatic Reading of Percy Shelley's Prometheus Unbound &ndash; Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2017-09-06T17:14:08+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-10-08T19:59:27+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/#\/schema\/person\/f8d294b8813676c5af5057487764ff9e\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/dramatic-reading-percy-shelleys-prometheus-unbound\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/#\/schema\/person\/f8d294b8813676c5af5057487764ff9e\",\"name\":\"Raffaele Viglianti\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/#personlogo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a0b8791a1837c64fecce13a1effbe22e?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Raffaele Viglianti\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18914"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21032,"href":"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18914\/revisions\/21032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}