A reading from Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Prometheus Unbound".
Act 3, Scene 3 finds Prometheus addressing Asia, Panthea and Ione, thanking them for their kind attendances upon him over the term of his bondage. Shelley had no intention for his play -- based upon Aeschylus' trilogy, "Prometheia" -- to be performed on the stage; it was penned as a piece for the imagination.
Nevertheless, it is my belief that Shelley would not have been averse to a measure of interpretation, having himself adapted the original Aeschylus play for his own ends. The excerpt in the video speaks of hope -- perhaps a prayer for a better world: a freer, gentler, more aesthetically perceptive world. And veteran Royal Shakespeare Company actor Ralph Cotterill gives voice to Shelley's Prometheus with typical finesse.
It is important to note that there is no definitive message in Shelley's most famous work. Melvin Solve believed that Prometheus Unbound is so highly idealised and so remote from the conditions of life that the moral lesson is not essential to the enjoyment of the piece, and is, in fact, so well disguised that the critics have differed widely as to its interpretation.
This video was filmed with the kind consent of Maliwan Maiwan,
Ban Phor Liang Meun's Terra Cotta Arts
36 Soi 2, Prapakklao Rd., Chiang Mai
Venetian Renaissance Lute Music
From "Fronimo Dialogo"
I. Fantasia terza (1568)
II. Duo del primo Modo (1584)
Written by: VINCENZO GALILEI [1532 c.-1591]
Performed by Massimo Lonardi (Milan, 1987)
26 авг 2024