What was the purpose of Masque of Anarchy?
While completing Prometheus Unbound and The Cenci, Shelley reacted to news of the Peterloo Massacre (August 1819) in England by writing The Masque of Anarchy and several radical songs that he hoped would rouse the British people to active but nonviolent political protest. What is one of the key themes in The Masque of Anarchy?…