The Byronic hero is an idealized, but flawed, character exemplified in the life and writings of Lord Byron, characterized by his ex-lover Lady Caroline Lamb as being "mad, bad and dangerous to know".[1] The Byronic hero first appears in Byron's...
The Byronic Hero in Film, Fiction, and Television by Atara Stein (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2004), ISBN 0-80932-586-1, 260 pp., $45.00. Atara Stein intends her book for 'both academic and nonacademic readers who study Byron or who have a fascination with the...
TCHAIKOVSKY'S broody Eugene Onegin might seem an unlikely subject for Valentine's Night, yet it does no harm to be reminded of the potential for heartache beneath the meretricious gloss of commercialised romance. In James Macdonald's new production for Welsh National Opera, the first...