Nightmare Abbey sample

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Nightmare Abbey
By Thomas Love Peacock

Presented by Voices of Today

Narration by Graham Scott

Also featuring the voices of Alan Weyman, Denis Daly and Rachel May.

Text prepared by Denis Daly and Alan Weyman.

Music for songs composed and arranged by Alan Weyman.

Audio edited by Denis Daly and Alan Weyman.

The melodramatic romance by Goethe, The Sorrows of the Youg Werther, the story of a troubled asthete who kills himself for love, was first published on 1774 and has since become one of the staples of German literature.

Such extravagant productions lend themselves readily to parody, and naturally attracted the attention of skilled satirists like Thomas Love Peacock. The author's close friend Percy Bysshe Shelley, serves as the Werther figure, who is named Scythrop in the book. The melancholoy traveller, Mr Cypress, is said to have been modelled on Byron, and the ponderous Mr Flosky on Coleridge. Unlike Werther, Scythrop, after being dumped by two women, consoles himself with a draft of Madeira, rather than shooting himself.