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Updated: May 28, 2025
The scheme of 'Prometheus Unbound' is drawn from the immortal creations of Greek tragedy.
This done, he made preparations for publicly receiving the homage of the people, and determined to use the theatre for that purpose, and to put on the stage Prometheus, the trilogy of Aeschylus, which at that time existed in its entirety. The Emperor had brought actors with him, and the theatre stood ready.
It opens with a chorus of seraphim. Prometheus laments; but the chief part is that of Athene. On that I have exhausted myself. But where can I get a voice that can adequately render my thoughts our thoughts? Where is Bice? She alone has this voice; she alone has the power of catching and absorbing into her own mind the ideas which I form; and with it all, she alone could express them.
"A rabble of pigmies scaling Heaven," said the noble though misguided young Prisoner. "Prometheus was a Giant, and he fell." "Yes, indeed, my brave youth!" the benevolent Dr.
But best of all, the charming Miss Barrett, who translated the most difficult of the Greek plays, 'Prometheus Bound. She has written most exquisite poems, too, in almost every modern style. She is so sweet and gentle, and so pretty that one looks at her as if she were some bright flower."
In the midst of these weird denunciations, Mercury arrives, charged by Jupiter to learn the nature of that danger which Prometheus predicts to him. The Titan bitterly and haughtily defies the threats and warnings of the herald, and exults, that whatever be his tortures, he is at least immortal, to be afflicted, but not to die.
Prometheus, bound to the Rock, had been saved by good St. George. Paris had given the apple to William Tell. What matter! the information was there. It needed rearranging, that was all.
Says Lytton, not unwisely perhaps: "His genius is so near the verge of bombast, that to approach his sublime is to rush into the ridiculous"; and he goes on to say that you might find the nearest echo of his diction in Shelley's Prometheus; but of his diction alone; for "his power is in concentration that of Shelley in diffuseness."
But for the rest it seemed to me that they might as well have named any other hero of tragedy Prometheus for example as the mighty and loving being that, even now, directed all their steps and shed light upon their path.
He was impatient of the subtleties of astronomical calculations; they only attempted to satisfy problems about the motion of bodies in the sky, and told us nothing of physical fact; they gave us, as Prometheus gave to Jove, the outside skin of the offering, which was stuffed inside with straw and rubbish.
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