The introduction to a play calls this character “the champion… of mankind” and resists the tradition of an older play of reconciling this character with his “oppressor.” For 10 points each:
[10h] What character is the focus of an 1819 closet drama inspired by an earlier work by Aeschylus?
ANSWER: Prometheus [accept Prometheus Unbound or Prometheus Bound]
[10m] Prometheus Unbound is a closet drama by this Romantic playwright and poet of “To a Skylark.”
ANSWER: Percy Bysshe Shelley [prompt on Shelley]
[10e] Shelley also wrote this poem about Rameses II. In this poem, a memorial to the title figure issues the command to “Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
ANSWER: “Ozymandias”
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