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'''Percy Bysshe Shelley''' was an [[English]] Romantic [[poet]] and [[playwright]] during the early [[19th century]].


'''Percy Bysshe Shelley''' was a [[19th century]] [[English]] romantic poet. He was the husband of [[Mary Shelley]], best known as the author of the science based horror story ''[[Frankenstein|Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus]]'', who later became a companion of the [[Eighth Doctor]]. His circle of friends included his fellow Romantic poet [[Lord Byron]] and [[John Polidori]], one of the first authors to write about [[vampire]]s. ([[BFA]]: ''[[Mary's Story]]'')
== Biography ==
He was born in [[1792]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Managra (novel)}})


The [[Fifth Doctor]] once expressed a desire to meet him. ([[BFA]]: ''[[Castle of Fear]]'') In his [[Eighth Doctor|eighth incarnation]], he would later encounter both Shelley and his wife in the Villa Diodati near [[Lake Geneva]] in [[Switzerland]] in [[June]] [[1816]]. ([[BFA]]: ''[[Mary's Story]]'') Mary regarded her husband as being her soulmate. ([[BFA]]: ''[[Army of Death]]'')
Percy abandoned a [[Percy Shelley's wife|wife]] and a [[Percy Shelley's child|child]] for [[Mary Shelley]], in [[1814]], when Mary was 16. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Mary's Story (audio story)}}) Mary regarded him as her soulmate. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Army of Death (audio story)}}) They called each other "husband" and "wife" for several months or years before they were officially [[married]]; at the time, Percy had an affair with [[Claire Clairmont]], Mary's half-sister. Percy and Claire found it amusing that Mary knew about their affair. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Mary's Story (audio story)}})


He had invested money in the [[The Turk|Turk]] prior to 1816. ([[BFA]]: ''[[The Silver Turk]]'')
In [[June]] [[1816]], Percy was spending time with Mary, Claire [[George Gordon Byron|Lord Byron]] and [[John Polidori]] at [[Villa Diodati]] near [[Lake Geneva]] in [[Switzerland]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Mary's Story (audio story)}}, [[TV]]: {{cs|The Haunting of Villa Diodati (TV story)}}) They were still referring to each other as husband and wife despite not being married yet, and were staying in a [[chalet]] named [[Maison Chapuis]], located on the shores of the [[lake]]. Percy would often retire to the chalet to write. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Haunting of Villa Diodati (TV story)}})
 
While out walking, Percy spotted the [[Cyberium]] in the lake. When he fished it out of the [[water]], it melted in his [[hand]] and entered his [[blood]]stream. Upon returning to Villa Diodati, the Cyberium tried to hide itself by making Shelley invisible to everyone else and even utilized a [[perception filter]] to keep from being discovered. Meanwhile, Shelley acted as its guardian. At the same time, the [[Thirteenth Doctor]] and her [[companion]]s were visiting Villa Diodati, while [[Ashad]] had invaded the house in search of the Cyberium. It recited [[Queen Mab (poem)|one]] of Percy's [[poem]]s to Mary Shelley, saying "He cherisheth the snakes that gnaw his heart and he raises up the tyrant whose delight is in his woe." This startled Mary, who gasped and wondered how the Cyberman knew Percy's words.
 
When the Doctor was finally able to locate Percy, she had him tell her what happened. She noticed that the Cyberium was burning through his mind and would destroy him if it stayed in him much longer. The Cyberman demanded that the group surrendered the Cyberium, but in order to be extracted, the Cyberium had to leave willingly. The Doctor proceeded to use an old [[Time Lord]] trick to show Shelley his future [[death]], which tricked the Cyberium into leaving his body. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Haunting of Villa Diodati (TV story)}})
 
At Villa Diodati, Shelley's group encountered the [[Eighth Doctor]], who introduced himself as [[Aliases of the Doctor|Dr Frankenstein]]. When the Doctor appeared to have died, Percy suggested to make an experiment with lightning on the Doctor's body, modelled after the experiments of [[signor]] [[Galvani]] on [[frog]]s. During the experiment, Percy called himself "the modern Prometheus". The experience later inspired Mary Shelley's novel ''[[Frankenstein|Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus]]''. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Mary's Story (audio story)}})
 
Percy's circle of friends, known to [[Faction Paradox]] as the "[[Shelley Cabal]]", ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Book of the War (novel)}}) included [[John Polidori]] and the Romantic poet [[George Gordon Byron|Lord Byron]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Book of the War (novel)}}, [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Mary's Story (audio story)}}) Together, the group attacked several of the [[Star Chamber]]'s political puppets and popularised stories of [[vampire|vampirism]] and unspeakable [[science]] influenced by the Chamber's knowledge of [[the Homeworld]] and the [[Eternal War|war]] against the [[Yssgaroth]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Book of the War (novel)}})
 
Percy often took [[laudanum]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Mary's Story (audio story)}}) In between writing poetry and drinking, Percy liked to read impenetrable scientific journals. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Silver Turk (audio story)}})
 
In [[1819]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Book of the War (novel)}}, [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Peterloo Massacre (audio story)}}) Shelley released the work ''[[The Mask of Anarchy]]'', ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Book of the War (novel)}}) inspired by the [[Peterloo Massacre]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Peterloo Massacre (audio story)}}) Several lines of the poem, including the name [[House Dvora|Dvora]], had first appeared to Shelley while sleep in [[Italy]], though he later changed them to mention his political enemy [[Castlereagh]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Book of the War (novel)}})
 
In [[1821]] or [[1822]], the [[Mal'akh]] attacked the Shelley Cabal in [[Pisa]]. Several months later, in 1822, the Mal'akh attacked them again near [[Massa]], and the Shelley Cabal was split up; Shelley and two friends were chased out to sea ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Book of the War (novel)}}) in his [[schooner]] off the coast of [[Italy]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Managra (novel)}}) and three bodies washed up on shore several miles apart. While the [[corpse]]s of his two friends were identifiable, his body was missing its face and arms, recognisable only by his clothing and the copy [[John Keats]]' ''[[Lamia]]'' in the pocket.
 
In a ceremony led by [[Lord Byron]], the three bodies were burned on the beach between Massa and [[Viareggio]], though Shelley's heart appeared to be resistant to the flame. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Book of the War (novel)}})
 
== Legacy ==
When facing {{Dhawan}} and the [[CyberMaster]]s on [[Gallifrey]], the Thirteenth Doctor mentioned Percy Shelley, saying that she started this with Shelley and the Cyberium, and now she had to finish it. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Timeless Children (TV story)}})
 
== References ==
On [[1 November]] [[1831]], [[Jared Malahyde]] recalled Shelley's words: "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world" and "poets [a]re the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present." ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Reckless Engineering (novel)}})
 
The [[Fifth Doctor]] once expressed a desire to meet Shelley. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Castle of Fear (audio story)}}) He quoted several lines from ''[[The Mask of Anarchy]]'' to [[Nyssa]] and [[Tegan Jovanka|Tegan]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Peterloo Massacre (audio story)}})
 
[[Charlotte Pollard|Charley]] once compared the Eighth Doctor to Shelley. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Letting Go (audio story)}}) The Eighth Doctor's face reminded [[Edward Fyne]] of a portrait of Shelley that hung in his father's library. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Eye of the Tyger (novel)}})
 
[[Michael Brookhaven]] produced the film ''[[Percy Shelley's Prince of Blood]]'' in [[1993]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Book of the War (novel)}})
 
[[Percy Shelley (Reprise)|A Reprise of Shelley]] lived in [[Europa (Managra)|Europa]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Managra (novel)}})
 
== Behind the scenes ==
* In the real world, Percy and Mary Shelley were married on [[30 December]] [[1816]].
* Poems by Shelley were quoted twice in [[series 12 (Doctor Who 2005)|series 12]]: Ashad quoted lines from the stanza "The Fairy" from Shelley's "[[Queen Mab (poem)|Queen Mab]]", and {{Dhawan}} quoted, "Look upon my work, Doctor, and despair" from "[[Ozymandias]]".
* Percy's death, showed to him by the Thirteenth Doctor, took place on July 8, 1822, where he drowned when his sailing ship went down in a sudden storm.
* [[Helen Fayle]]'s rejected entries from ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'' included the revelation that Shelley had been a member of [[Faction Paradox]] under the name "Cousin Shiloh". She explained the excision as "one too many [[Cult of Celebrity Death|Dead Celebrities]]."<ref>[https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/factionparadox/the-poenari-relic-t673-s40.html#p3880 "The Poenari Relic" on the Faction Paradox Community]</ref>
* He was played by [[Lee Cornes]] in the ''Blackadder the Third'' episode "Ink and Incapability".
 
== Footnotes ==
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{{Mary Shelley}}


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Percy Shelley
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Percy Bysshe Shelley was an English Romantic poet and playwright during the early 19th century.

Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]

He was born in 1792. (PROSE: Managra [+]Loading...["Managra (novel)"])

Percy abandoned a wife and a child for Mary Shelley, in 1814, when Mary was 16. (AUDIO: Mary's Story [+]Loading...["Mary's Story (audio story)"]) Mary regarded him as her soulmate. (AUDIO: Army of Death [+]Loading...["Army of Death (audio story)"]) They called each other "husband" and "wife" for several months or years before they were officially married; at the time, Percy had an affair with Claire Clairmont, Mary's half-sister. Percy and Claire found it amusing that Mary knew about their affair. (AUDIO: Mary's Story [+]Loading...["Mary's Story (audio story)"])

In June 1816, Percy was spending time with Mary, Claire Lord Byron and John Polidori at Villa Diodati near Lake Geneva in Switzerland. (AUDIO: Mary's Story [+]Loading...["Mary's Story (audio story)"], TV: The Haunting of Villa Diodati [+]Loading...["The Haunting of Villa Diodati (TV story)"]) They were still referring to each other as husband and wife despite not being married yet, and were staying in a chalet named Maison Chapuis, located on the shores of the lake. Percy would often retire to the chalet to write. (TV: The Haunting of Villa Diodati [+]Loading...["The Haunting of Villa Diodati (TV story)"])

While out walking, Percy spotted the Cyberium in the lake. When he fished it out of the water, it melted in his hand and entered his bloodstream. Upon returning to Villa Diodati, the Cyberium tried to hide itself by making Shelley invisible to everyone else and even utilized a perception filter to keep from being discovered. Meanwhile, Shelley acted as its guardian. At the same time, the Thirteenth Doctor and her companions were visiting Villa Diodati, while Ashad had invaded the house in search of the Cyberium. It recited one of Percy's poems to Mary Shelley, saying "He cherisheth the snakes that gnaw his heart and he raises up the tyrant whose delight is in his woe." This startled Mary, who gasped and wondered how the Cyberman knew Percy's words.

When the Doctor was finally able to locate Percy, she had him tell her what happened. She noticed that the Cyberium was burning through his mind and would destroy him if it stayed in him much longer. The Cyberman demanded that the group surrendered the Cyberium, but in order to be extracted, the Cyberium had to leave willingly. The Doctor proceeded to use an old Time Lord trick to show Shelley his future death, which tricked the Cyberium into leaving his body. (TV: The Haunting of Villa Diodati [+]Loading...["The Haunting of Villa Diodati (TV story)"])

At Villa Diodati, Shelley's group encountered the Eighth Doctor, who introduced himself as Dr Frankenstein. When the Doctor appeared to have died, Percy suggested to make an experiment with lightning on the Doctor's body, modelled after the experiments of signor Galvani on frogs. During the experiment, Percy called himself "the modern Prometheus". The experience later inspired Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. (AUDIO: Mary's Story [+]Loading...["Mary's Story (audio story)"])

Percy's circle of friends, known to Faction Paradox as the "Shelley Cabal", (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Loading...["The Book of the War (novel)"]) included John Polidori and the Romantic poet Lord Byron. (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Loading...["The Book of the War (novel)"], AUDIO: Mary's Story [+]Loading...["Mary's Story (audio story)"]) Together, the group attacked several of the Star Chamber's political puppets and popularised stories of vampirism and unspeakable science influenced by the Chamber's knowledge of the Homeworld and the war against the Yssgaroth. (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Loading...["The Book of the War (novel)"])

Percy often took laudanum. (AUDIO: Mary's Story [+]Loading...["Mary's Story (audio story)"]) In between writing poetry and drinking, Percy liked to read impenetrable scientific journals. (AUDIO: The Silver Turk [+]Loading...["The Silver Turk (audio story)"])

In 1819, (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Loading...["The Book of the War (novel)"], AUDIO: The Peterloo Massacre [+]Loading...["The Peterloo Massacre (audio story)"]) Shelley released the work The Mask of Anarchy, (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Loading...["The Book of the War (novel)"]) inspired by the Peterloo Massacre. (AUDIO: The Peterloo Massacre [+]Loading...["The Peterloo Massacre (audio story)"]) Several lines of the poem, including the name Dvora, had first appeared to Shelley while sleep in Italy, though he later changed them to mention his political enemy Castlereagh. (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Loading...["The Book of the War (novel)"])

In 1821 or 1822, the Mal'akh attacked the Shelley Cabal in Pisa. Several months later, in 1822, the Mal'akh attacked them again near Massa, and the Shelley Cabal was split up; Shelley and two friends were chased out to sea (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Loading...["The Book of the War (novel)"]) in his schooner off the coast of Italy, (PROSE: Managra [+]Loading...["Managra (novel)"]) and three bodies washed up on shore several miles apart. While the corpses of his two friends were identifiable, his body was missing its face and arms, recognisable only by his clothing and the copy John Keats' Lamia in the pocket.

In a ceremony led by Lord Byron, the three bodies were burned on the beach between Massa and Viareggio, though Shelley's heart appeared to be resistant to the flame. (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Loading...["The Book of the War (novel)"])

Legacy[[edit] | [edit source]]

When facing the Spy Master and the CyberMasters on Gallifrey, the Thirteenth Doctor mentioned Percy Shelley, saying that she started this with Shelley and the Cyberium, and now she had to finish it. (TV: The Timeless Children [+]Loading...["The Timeless Children (TV story)"])

References[[edit] | [edit source]]

On 1 November 1831, Jared Malahyde recalled Shelley's words: "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world" and "poets [a]re the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present." (PROSE: Reckless Engineering [+]Loading...["Reckless Engineering (novel)"])

The Fifth Doctor once expressed a desire to meet Shelley. (AUDIO: Castle of Fear [+]Loading...["Castle of Fear (audio story)"]) He quoted several lines from The Mask of Anarchy to Nyssa and Tegan. (AUDIO: The Peterloo Massacre [+]Loading...["The Peterloo Massacre (audio story)"])

Charley once compared the Eighth Doctor to Shelley. (AUDIO: Letting Go [+]Loading...["Letting Go (audio story)"]) The Eighth Doctor's face reminded Edward Fyne of a portrait of Shelley that hung in his father's library. (PROSE: The Eye of the Tyger [+]Loading...["The Eye of the Tyger (novel)"])

Michael Brookhaven produced the film Percy Shelley's Prince of Blood in 1993. (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Loading...["The Book of the War (novel)"])

A Reprise of Shelley lived in Europa. (PROSE: Managra [+]Loading...["Managra (novel)"])

Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • In the real world, Percy and Mary Shelley were married on 30 December 1816.
  • Poems by Shelley were quoted twice in series 12: Ashad quoted lines from the stanza "The Fairy" from Shelley's "Queen Mab", and the Spy Master quoted, "Look upon my work, Doctor, and despair" from "Ozymandias".
  • Percy's death, showed to him by the Thirteenth Doctor, took place on July 8, 1822, where he drowned when his sailing ship went down in a sudden storm.
  • Helen Fayle's rejected entries from The Book of the War included the revelation that Shelley had been a member of Faction Paradox under the name "Cousin Shiloh". She explained the excision as "one too many Dead Celebrities."[1]
  • He was played by Lee Cornes in the Blackadder the Third episode "Ink and Incapability".

Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. ↑ "The Poenari Relic" on the Faction Paradox Community
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