The Byronic Hero and the Renaissance Hero-Villain: Analogues and Prototypes (open access)

The Byronic Hero and the Renaissance Hero-Villain: Analogues and Prototypes

The purpose of this study is to suggest the influence of certain characters in eighteen works by English Renaissance authors upon the Byronic Hero, that composite figure which emerges from Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, the Oriental Tales, the dramas, and some of the shorter poems.
Date: August 1973
Creator: Howard, Ida Beth
System: The UNT Digital Library