Article: Lord Byron at Harrow School: Speaking Out, Talking Back, Acting Up, Bowing Out.

Lord Byron at Harrow School: Speaking Out, Talking Back, Acting Up, Bowing Out. By PAUL ELLEDGE. Baltimore, MD, and London: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2000. xiii + 221 pp. 31 [pounds sterling].

There is a major revival of interest in Romantic theatre as performative art and in the iconography and iconology of public spectacle in the Romantic period. Lord Byron at Harrow School builds upon this work in a minute enquiry into the place of performative speech at Harrow School and into Byron's schoolboy interest in London theatre and domestic theatricals. Byron delivered three orations on Speech Day while at school, personating King Latinus in a recitation of the ...

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