On November 18, 2013 at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in the West Village, Revelation Readings, in conjunction with Red Bull Theater and the Romanticist Research Group of New York University, presented the first staged reading of Percy Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound since 1998. The performance was followed by an informal Q&A with the director, Craig Baldwin, Red Bull artistic director Jesse Berger, Randie Sessler and Omar F. Miranda from the NYU Department of English, and several exhausted cast members who generously remained after the show to discuss the project with the audience. A sold-out crowd of approximately three hundred—apparently comprising both Shelley enthusiasts and theater fans—enjoyed a lively and nuanced performance that was especially impressive given that the cast had only a single rehearsal that same afternoon.

The back catalogue of the Charles Lamb Bulletin (from our first issue in 1973 to issue 143 in July 2008) is now available online at our website: http://www.charleslambsociety.com/b-online.html

This is a fantastic new resource available to Elians around the world, allowing free access to a range of distinguished scholarship on the Lambs and their circle.

The Shelley-Godwin Archive, launched on October 31, is now live. The new digital resource comprises the manuscripts of Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.  For the first time ever, the widely scattered manuscripts of England’s “first family of writers” are being brought together in digital form online for worldwide use. Visit the site at www.shelleygodwinarchive.org.

The Shelley-Godwin Archive will have its public launch at the New York Public Library on Halloween, Thursday 31 October, 2013, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. in the Margaret Berger Forum, Room 227. Neil Fraistat and David Brookshire from the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities will describe the creation of the Archive's first transcribed and encoded manuscript, the Bodleian Library's Frankenstein notebooks of Mary Shelley. Liz Denlinger of the Pforzheimer Collection will give a brief overview of the Archive's generation and birth. Charles Robinson of the University of Delaware will give a more extended talk on the composition of the novel, with illustrations from the Archive.

The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston recently held a screening of a new experimental take on the life of Mary Shelley. Here's what the ICA Boston's Website says about the film:

Working with non-actors, the seasons, and the extraordinary architecture and landscapes of Rome, Abigail Child has created the exuberant and visually gorgeous UNBOUND: Scenes from the Life of Mary Shelley. In the shape of imaginary home movies, the film tells the story of the teenage author of Frankenstein and her husband, the romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.