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Prometheus Unbound

noun

  1. a drama in verse (1820) by Shelley.


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In “Emanon — in Two Movements,” set to Shorter’s “Pegasus” and “Prometheus Unbound,” Roberts doesn’t exactly interfere with the music, though he doesn’t really reveal a different, dancerly side of it, either.

On “Prometheus Unbound,” we hear how skillfully Shorter marshals a string section; he uses the orchestra not only to add strength and harmonic layers, but also to give his wide, intervallic leaps a new dynamic momentum.

Romantic-era poets, painters and novelists were haunted by but irresistibly drawn to Prometheus, who was sometimes compared with Napoleon in poems and cartoons of the day, with spin-offs ranging from Blake’s ‘Prometheus Bound’ and Jean-Louis- Cesar Lair’s ‘The Torture of Prometheus’, to Percy Shelley’s play Prometheus Unbound and Mary Shelley’s hugely influential novel, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus.

A favorite motto of his was a quotation from Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound; one should, he said,

From Time

He was 29, and among the works he left behind was a verse drama, “Prometheus Unbound.”

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