Jacqueline Mulhallen wrote and performed in the plays Sylvia and Rebels and Friends and is the author of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Poet and Revolutionary (Pluto, 2015) and The Theatre of Shelley (Open Book Publishers, 2010). She contributed a chapter on Shelley to The Oxford Handbook to Georgian Theatre (OUP, 2014), which was shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize 2015.

• AcknowledgementsPrologue1. Shelley’s Family Background and Education: 1792-18112. The Lake District, Ireland and Devon: 1811-133. Tremadog, Queen Mab and the ‘Hermit of Marlow’: 1813-184. Italy and Shelley’s Annus Mirabilis: 1818-195. Satire and Drama: 1819-22NotesIndex

'Humankind needed Shelley back then, and this book reminds us of how much we need him now. It is an honest look at a truly revolutionary life'

Jacqueline Mulhallen wrote and performed in the plays Sylvia and Rebels and Friends and is the author of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Poet and Revolutionary (Pluto, 2015) and The Theatre of Shelley (Open Book Publishers, 2010). She contributed a chapter on Shelley to The Oxford Handbook to Georgian Theatre (OUP, 2014), which was shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize 2015.

• AcknowledgementsPrologue1. Shelley’s Family Background and Education: 1792-18112. The Lake District, Ireland and Devon: 1811-133. Tremadog, Queen Mab and the ‘Hermit of Marlow’: 1813-184. Italy and Shelley’s Annus Mirabilis: 1818-195. Satire and Drama: 1819-22NotesIndex

'Humankind needed Shelley back then, and this book reminds us of how much we need him now. It is an honest look at a truly revolutionary life'

Jacqueline Mulhallen wrote and performed in the plays Sylvia and Rebels and Friends and is the author of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Poet and Revolutionary (Pluto, 2015) and The Theatre of Shelley (Open Book Publishers, 2010). She contributed a chapter on Shelley to The Oxford Handbook to Georgian Theatre (OUP, 2014), which was shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize 2015.

• AcknowledgementsPrologue1. Shelley’s Family Background and Education: 1792-18112. The Lake District, Ireland and Devon: 1811-133. Tremadog, Queen Mab and the ‘Hermit of Marlow’: 1813-184. Italy and Shelley’s Annus Mirabilis: 1818-195. Satire and Drama: 1819-22NotesIndex

'Humankind needed Shelley back then, and this book reminds us of how much we need him now. It is an honest look at a truly revolutionary life'