“She’s his manic pixie Greek girl.”
Get ready as we throw so much shade on Lord Byron even a vampire would curse the night as we touch on the last of our “big three”: The Vampyre by John William Polidori. A short episode for a short story, we’ll discuss syphilis, the pains of being Lord Byron’s doctor, that night in Geneva in the year without a summer and the role of women as victims and plot devices.
Episode Details
Title: Isn’t It Byronic?
Subject: The Vampyre by John William Polidori
Release Date: 11/08/2015
Length: 00:23:21
Title Reference: Ironic by Alanis Morissette.
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One Comment on ““Episode 03: Isn’t It Byronic?””
This was the only work out of the ones covered in the first five episodes that I hadn’t read! I read it after listening to the episode, which is not really how I like to do things, but I enjoyed both the episode and the short story all the same.
I now have to get off my butt and find a spare two hours to watch Tanz der Vampyr. Ceilidh recommended it to me on Twitter months ago and I have had zero downtime since. Podcasts I can listen to in the car but video not so much.