"Prometheus Unbound" -- a reading by Ralph Cotterill
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.
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