MARY SHELLEY: Mary & Percy scene- RP ACCENT

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INT. SHELLEY HOUSEHOLD- DAY, 1816

Mary waits at home for Percy and Claire to return. Mary is still shocked at Hogg’s attempts to kiss her and her reluctance. Claire, Mary’s sister, senses something is wrong straight away.

(Please note when Mary asks for Claire to leave, she does, leaving Mary and Percy alone)

CONTEXT: In 1814, Regency-era London, Mary Wollstonecraft-Godwin is a 16 years old aspiring writer who works in the bookshop of her renowned father writer William Godwin, married in second terms after the passing of his first wife, philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft, with the too married by second time Mary Jane Clairmont, where Mary Jane’s daughter of her first marriage Claire turns in a close and lovely stepsister for Mary. When Mary and Claire travel at the house of one of William’s friends in Scotland, Mary meets the 21 years old poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, rising instantly a love interest between them. Returning to London little time later, Mary begins a bohemian and torrid relationship with him despite the opposition of her father and her stepmother, especially after they discover that Percy is married with a little daughter whom he supports but he loves no longer. Determined to be free and live on her own terms, Mary flees with Percy to live together accompanied by Claire, who wants to get far from her abusive mother. Their initial happiness turns to tragedy due to the debts and poverty, and Mary realises that Percy and she do not share the same view of their relationship/future.

RP accent
Natural accent: Australian