“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Queen Mab 1813-2013






Alan Weinberg and I have started a bicentenary celebration and explorationof Shelley's Queen Mab.


At first we wanted to do a facsimile hard copy, but knowing that Shelley would probably have been all over open access and the internet, we decided to begin our conversation online.

Given the current political situation (Occupy Wall Street in particular), and the fact that Shelley began to compose Queen Mab around about now two hundred years ago (November 1811), we thought it would be best to throw open what we already have.

In particular, you will find us beginning to dialogue about Queen Mab if you click the "Dialogue" tab. You are welcome to post comments.

I won't say much more, to preserve the playful, encrypted element of Queen Mab.

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