Proserpine and Midas Shelley Mary
Proserpine and Midas Shelley Mary Proserpine and Midas (1820) is a collection of plays by Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Together, the plays illuminate the working relationship of a husband…
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Proserpine and Midas Shelley Mary
Proserpine and Midas (1820) is a collection of plays by Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Together, the plays illuminate the working relationship of a husband and wife who helped define Romanticism, highlighting their individual talents in the process. Combining Mary's blank verse and Percy's lyric poems, the Shelleys offer two groundbreaking retellings of classical myth.
Ceres, the goddess of agriculture, leaves her daughter Proserpine in the care of two trusted nymphs. While Proserpine was published in 1832 in The Winter's Wreath, a London periodical, Mary Shelley was unable to find a publisher for Midas, which remained unprinted until the twentieth century. While the women are out picking flowers, Proserpine is kidnapped by Pluto, the dreaded lord of the underworld.
Distraught, Ceres laments the loss of her beloved girl and appeals to Jove for
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