In a special guest edition of our #Shelley200 interview series, Shelley Conference Postgraduate Helpers, Ana Romanelli and Laura Blunsden, speak with the actor and long-time friend of the Keats-Shelley House in Rome, Mr Julian Sands.
Julian Sands is an acclaimed British actor of the stage, film, and television, and a long-time friend of the Keats-Shelley House in Rome. Sands famously portrayed Percy Bysshe Shelley in Ken Russell’s Gothic (1986), and has also starred in The Killing Fields (1984), A Room with a View (1985), and Warlock (1989), to name but a few roles in his extensive filmography. Sands is an accomplished reader of poetry, and regularly reads for the Keats-Shelley House. Sands is a patron for the Shelley Memorial Project in Horsham and an ambassador of #KeatsShelley200, the Keats-Shelley House in Rome’s bicentenary initiative.
You can purchase collections of Shelley, Keats, and Byron’s poetry edited by Professor Duncan Wu and with prefaces by Julian Sands in the Keats-Shelley House webshop, here.
Follow our friends the Keats-Shelley House on Twitter and Facebook for more updates on #KeatsShelley200 events. Visit the Horsham Shelley Memorial Project website here and follow them on Twitter for updates.
If you wish to get in touch with Julian Sands with questions about his portrayal and readings of Shelley, please contact us.
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