Regarding Shelley

In 1812, the Home Secretary ordered government agents to track a celebrated 19-year-old poet across Britain. Branded a ‘dangerous radical’ for his political activism, Percy Bysshe Shelley lived under constant surveillance.
In this new play with parallels to our own age of digital watchfulness, Richard Bradbury explores the paranoia surrounding Shelley’s early years and the chilling impact of state scrutiny.