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English writer Lord Byron has been mentioned in numerous media. A few examples of his appearances in literature, film, music, television and theatre are listed below. ==Literature== Byron first appeared as a thinly disguised fictional character in his ex-love Lady Caroline Lamb's book ''Glenarvon'', published in 1816.〔 〕 The archetypal vampire character, notably Bram Stoker's ''Dracula'', is based on Byron. The gothic ideal of a decadent, pale and aristocratic individual who enamors himself to whomever he meets, but who is perceived to have a dark and dangerous inner self is a literary archetype derived from characteristations of Byron. The image of a vampire portrayed as an aristocrat was created by John William Polidori in ''The Vampyre'', during the summer of 1816 which he spent in the company of Byron. The titled Count Dracula is a reprise of this character. Byron is a character in T. Zachary Cotler's literary novel ''Ghost at the Loom'' (2014). Byron is the main character of the film ''Byron'', by the Greek filmmaker Nikos Koundouros. Byron's spirit is one of the title characters of the ''Ghosts of Albion'' books by Amber Benson and Christopher Golden. John Crowley's book ''Lord Byron's Novel: The Evening Land'' (2005) involves the rediscovery of a lost manuscript by Lord Byron, as do Frederic Prokosch's ''The Missolonghi Manuscript'' (1968), ''The Secret Memoir of Lord Byron '' by Christopher Nicole (1979) and Robert Nye's ''Memoirs of Lord Byron'' (1989). Byron appears as a character in Tim Powers's time travel/alternative history novels ''The Stress of Her Regard'' (1989) and ''The Anubis Gates'' (1983), Walter Jon Williams's fantasy novella ''Wall, Stone Craft'' (1994), and also in Susanna Clarke's alternative history ''Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell'' (2004). Tom Holland, in his 1995 novel ''The Vampyre: Being the True Pilgrimage of George Gordon, Sixth Lord Byron'', romantically describes how Lord Byron became a vampire during his first visit to Greece — a fictional transformation that explains much of his subsequent behaviour towards family and friends, and finds support in quotes from Byron poems and the diaries of John Cam Hobhouse. It is written as though Byron is retelling part of his life to his great great-great-great-granddaughter. He describes travelling in Greece, Italy, Switzerland, meeting Percy Bysshe Shelley, Shelley's death, and many other events in life around that time. Byron as vampire character returns in the 1996 sequel ''Supping with Panthers''. ''The Black Drama'' by Manly Wade Wellman,〔 〕 originally published in Weird Tales, involves the rediscovery and production of a lost play by Byron (from which Polidori's ''The Vampyre'' was plagiarised) by a man who purports to be a descendant of the poet. He makes an appearance in the alternative history novel ''The Difference Engine'' by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. In a Britain powered by the massive, steam-driven, mechanical computers invented by Charles Babbage, he is leader of the ''Industrial Radical Party'', eventually becoming Prime Minister. Byron is resurrected as a computer program in Amanda Prantera's 1987 novel ''Conversations with Lord Byron on Perversion, 163 Years After His Lordship's Death''. Novelist Benjamin Markovits produced a trilogy about the life of Byron. ''Imposture'' (2007) looked at the poet from the point of view of his friend and doctor, John Polidori. ''A Quiet Adjustment'' (2008), is an account of Byron's marriage that is more sympathetic to his wife, Annabella. ''Childish Loves ''(2011) is a reimagining of Byron's lost memoirs, dealing with questions about his childhood and sexual awakening. Byron is portrayed as an immortal in the book, ''Divine Fire'', by Melanie Jackson. In the comic thriller, ''Edward Trencom's Nose'' by Giles Milton, several of Edward's ancestors are poisoned, along with Byron. In the novel ''The History of Lucy's Love Life in Ten and a Half Chapters'', Lucy Lyons uses a time machine to visit 1813 and meet her idol, Byron. Byron is depicted as the villain/antagonist in the novel ''Jane Bites Back '' written by Michael Thomas Ford, published by Ballantine Books, 2010. A novel based on the premise that Jane Austen and Lord Byron are vampires living in the modern day literary world. Lawrence Durrell wrote a poem called ''Byron'' as a lyrical soliloquy; it was first published in 1944. Susanna Roxman's ''Allegra'' in her 1996 collection Broken Angels (Dionysia Press, Edinburgh) is a poem about Byron's daughter by Claire Clairmont. In this text, Byron is referred to as "Papa". Dan Chapman's 2010 vampire novella ''The Postmodern Malady of Dr. Peter Hudson'' begins at the time of Lord Byron's death and uses biographical information about him in the construction of its title character. It also directly quotes some of his work.〔Chapman, D. (2010), The Postmodern Malady ISBN 978-1477645062〕 Stephanie Barron's series of ''Jane Austen Mysteries'' has Lord Byron a suspect of murder in the 2010 book, ''Jane and the Madness of Lord Byron.'' He appears in a parallel story line in the novel ''The Fire'' by Katherine Neville. Byron is also a minor character in the ninth novel of L.A. Meyer's Bloody Jack series The Mark of the Golden Dragon. In the short story "The Writer's Child" by Tad Williams—collected in the short story anthology ''The Sandman: Book of Dreams'' edited by Neil Gaiman and Ed Kramer—Byron is depicted as reincarnated as a child's teddy bear. Described as "clubfoot" for having one leg shorter than the other, and called separately, "young lord" and simply "Byron", it is not til late in the story that he's revealed to be paying penalty for some kind of crime involving a woman named, "Ogusta". Byron is one of the main characters in David Liss's 2011 novel ''The Twelfth Enchantment.'' In ''Hex Hall'' series by Rachel Hawkins, Lord Byron is shown as a Vampire and the head English teacher at Hecate, the school for witches, warlocks, faeries, werewolves etc. He appears as a character in Susanna Clarke's novel "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lord Byron in popular culture」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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