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This book contains two separate works: 1. Prometheus Bound, by Aeschylus (ca. 525/4- 455/6 BC), first of the Ancient Greek tragedians, translated by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) and his cousin, Thomas Medwin (1788-1869). 2. Shelley's own poem, Prometheus Unbound, which was his own favorite of his poems, and is considered his masterpiece. This book also includes an appreciation of Prometheus Unbound by John Addington Symonds (1840-1893), and the poem, Prometheus, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), newly translated from the German. Editor John Lauritsen demonstrates, through biographical and textual evidence, that Shelley was the chief author of the Prometheus translation, which is a masterpiece in its own right. Shelley worked on it for years, engrossed by the theme of rebellion against tyranny -- dominant in the Aeschylus play and the poems by Goethe and himself. Comparisons between the Medwin-Shelley translation of Prometheus Bound and Shelley's own Prometheus Unbound show Shelley's amazing versatility at versification; he was the master of more verse forms than any other poet in English. Above all, they display Shelley's gift for dialogue. The unjustly forgotten Medwin-Shelley translation is still unequalled for dramatic power and poetry. It is a translation which could effectively be put on the stage.