Hudson Theatre Works' PlayWorks Series Of New Play Readings Presents SHELLEY By Joanne Hoersch
by Stephi Wild
- Apr 1, 2019
Before she wrote "Frankenstein' at the age of 19, Mary (Godwin) Shelley ran off to France with her lover, Romantic poet Percy Shelley, and her stepsister, Claire Clairmont, seeking a new life of lierte, egalite, and fraternite. With the idealism of youth, they thought they could build a new world based on the sublimity of Nature, the power of art, and the freedom of the individual. The year is 1814, and this courageous, brilliant threesome begins their adventure…'
