Adapted and produced by Douglas Cleverdon
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(Richard Burton and Esmé Percy are appearing in 'The Lady's Not for Burning ' at the Globe Theatre, London)
In Nightmare Abbey, one of the gayest of nineteenth-century conversation pieces, several of Peacock's friends were portrayed -Shelley in the guise of the romantic young idealist Scythrop, Coleridge as the metaphysical Dr. Flosky. Shelley , in Italy, was delighted with the novel, and gave the name of Scythrop's Tower to the tower in which he was working at Valsovano.
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