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"Prometheus Unbound" -- a reading by Ralph Cotterill 

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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)

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26 авг 2024

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@goldigit
@goldigit Год назад
Ralph Cotterill passed away on 7/05/23 at 91 years of age. Ralph was a tremendously talented stage and film actor, having studied his craft at the Drama Centre in London in the 1950s before joining the Royal Shakespeare Company in the 1960s. In 1973 he came to Australia, where his abilities brought him wide-ranging roles and many plaudits. Away from the lights and camera Ralph was not one to draw attention to himself, yet he did so by sheer weight of his presence. Intelligent, well-read, humble; a great actor and irreplaceable friend. R.I.P. Ralph, you will be missed by all: those who witnessed you on stage and those of us lucky enough to know you 🙏
@sumavilo
@sumavilo Месяц назад
I'm very sad to know that Ralph Cotterill passed away. Irreplaceable person ful of good attributes, indeed. We will be greatly missed. Kind regards. 🙏
@thomaswright5407
@thomaswright5407 3 месяца назад
This is great. Was not expecting the dad from Bad Boy Bubby to be reading Prometheus Unbound but incredibly strange juxtapositions and the varied talents of people is one of the few things I like about our time
@hjcrawfordiii
@hjcrawfordiii 9 лет назад
Wonderful reading! Thank you. Act 3 depicts the fall of Jupiter and thus tyranny from the world. Shelley delighted in making tyrants fall at the moment of their greatest complacency over their omnipotence. Jupiter, thinking that his child Demogorgon will consolidate his power, is shocked to learn that he is a “fatal child,” the principle of revolutionary change. Rather than ascend Jupiter’s vacant throne, Prometheus retires with Asia and her “sister nymphs,” Panthea and Ione, to a cave, forming what one commentator has called “a typically Shelleyan household.” Shelley’s political point here is that even Prometheus would be corrupted by the structure of power, as were the well-intended French revolutionaries; therefore, the political model is an egalitarian utopia with its roots in the philosophical anarchism of Godwin’s Political Justice . Since Prometheus and Asia together symbolize the mind of man, the peoples of the earth undergo the same transformation in consciousness: The man remains -- Sceptreless, free, uncircumscribed, but man; Equal, unclassed, tribeless and nationless, Exempt from awe, worship, degree, the king Over himself; just, gentle, wise
@daveletch6326
@daveletch6326 2 года назад
Truly magical Ralph. I saw you in the 70's in Melbourne. And then In Sydney, later. What a wonder you are. Thank you and bless you.
@jeffdavidson6146
@jeffdavidson6146 Год назад
What an extraordinary video, and reading. Stunning! Thank you so much. Dear Ralph, we will miss you. This video left me hungry for more. That said, what you left us is extraordinary. Many, many thanks. MUCH appreciated. Thank you!
@goldigit
@goldigit 9 месяцев назад
Many thanks ❤
@kevmoonhare
@kevmoonhare Год назад
Wonderful, many thanks.
@denniskeefe1979
@denniskeefe1979 9 лет назад
What a wonderful video! The background, the reading, the emotion. While it is natural that rock music videos get the lion's shares of views on RU-vid, it is a shame that such great gems as this reading do not yet attract enough attention. Espereble nova mondo venos kaj tiu mondo estos alia.
@michaellewis-sannerstedt3644
@michaellewis-sannerstedt3644 10 лет назад
Excellent reading. Like the garden too!
@elizabethlau644
@elizabethlau644 5 лет назад
Serene and sublime...............................Thanks for video !
@akankshamishra7319
@akankshamishra7319 5 лет назад
Wow!! Very good narration sir!! I am pleased to see the sculpture of Lord Shiva Lord budha and many more dieties in the rock...these are Indian God's and happy to see there ...😍😍
@edfou5
@edfou5 6 лет назад
A supremely beautiful, perfect reading within an exquisite production, created in my single favorite place in Chiang Mai. When I bring a friend there for coffee I tell them they must never tell anyone its location... for it must be our secret place.
@goldigit
@goldigit 6 лет назад
edfou5 Shhhh! Only you and I must know. Thanks for your interest and comment... best wishes 😉
@edfou5
@edfou5 6 лет назад
Thanks for your reply. My lips are sealed.
@goldigit
@goldigit 6 лет назад
edfou5 I've been going there for 15 years, long before they made it a restaurant/coffee shop. It's still beautiful but it used to be sublime (no people!). You could sit for hours and not see a soul. It was like being in another world, and there were many more large sculptures. Word is already out I regret to say... sigh.
@JohnReadsPoetry
@JohnReadsPoetry 2 года назад
Beautiful reading and music! Many thanks for sharing. I find it interesting to note the importance of Prometheus as a figure to the Shelleys and their circle. Percy wrote this, Mary wrote "Frankenstein", whose full title is "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus", and Byron, who was close to the Shelleys, also wrote a poem titled "Prometheus".
@DesperadoGoHawks
@DesperadoGoHawks 7 лет назад
Nicely done!
@isorokudono
@isorokudono 5 лет назад
Pain is my element; as hate is thine, Ye rend me now,;I care not.
@SkynetT800
@SkynetT800 5 лет назад
Magnificent
@mattmackane
@mattmackane 11 месяцев назад
Hung out a bit with Ralph in Chiang Mai (I lived there for about decade). I'd been an actor in Sydney and had dinner with once in the early 80s. This was wonderful. Sad to hear of his passing but happy to hear he'd made it to 91! Wonderful bloke!
@goldigit
@goldigit 11 месяцев назад
Thanks Matt. Yes, Ralph was a dear friend, impossible to replace. I lived in Chiang Mai on and off for 23 years. We may have met at The Garden restaurant, the best place to hang with like-minded expats. Best wishes 🙂
@nickwiles3071
@nickwiles3071 7 лет назад
Well read, in this person's opinion.
@George-lr4xi
@George-lr4xi 6 лет назад
L.A Noire brought me here
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