解放了的普罗米修斯

《解放了的普羅米修斯》（）是珀西·雪萊創作的一部四幕詩劇，1820年首版。它本質上是一部书斋剧，並不是為了在劇院上演而創作的Mulhallen, Jacqueline. "The Theatre of Shelley". Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2010, pp. 147–76.。

主人公即希臘神話中因盜天火而遭到宙斯懲罰的普羅米修斯，其靈感來自埃斯库罗斯創作的同名三部劇。和原作一樣，普羅米修斯最終都得以脫困，但雪萊的作品中，普羅米修斯並沒有和懲罰他的神和解，神的墮落才是他脫困的原因。

創作過程
瑪麗·雪萊在1818年9月5日的一份信首次提到珀西·雪萊在創作這部作品Zillman 1959 p. 3，而雪萊則在同年10月8日於寫給托马斯·拉夫·皮科克的一份信中首次提到了這部作品，說他已經完成了其第一幕的創作。Shelley 1930 IX . 336

但是由於雪萊的女兒克拉拉（Clara Everina Shelley）在1818年9月24日去世，雪萊前往意大利散心，期間《解放了的普羅米修斯》可能並沒有什麼太大的進展Zillman 1959 p. 4。它的完成時間大概是1819年4月，在4月6日寫給皮科克的信中，雪萊說：“我的解放了的普羅米修斯剛剛完成，我會在一到兩個月內寄過去”Shelley 1930 X p. 48. "My Prometheus Unbound is just finished, and in a month or two I shall send it"。但由於他的兒子威廉·雪萊在1819年6月7日去世，作品的發表日期再次推遲。

1819年9月6日，雪萊寫信給查爾斯和詹姆斯·奧利爾說他將把作品寄給他們出版Shelley 1930 X p. 79。雪萊托約翰·吉斯伯恩（John Gisborne）將他的作品帶回英格蘭，但是由於吉斯伯恩行程延誤，直到1819年12月出版方才收到《解放了的普羅米修斯》的前三幕Zillman p. 5。第四幕在此時尚未完成。1819年12月23日，雪萊給吉斯伯恩的信中才說他又寫成了額外的一幕。Shelley 1930 X p. 136

作品最終在1820年出版，雪萊夫婦則在當年11月收到了出版的《解放了的普羅米修斯》。Zillman pp. 6–7

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