The Messy Life of Chaos Bisexual Lord Byron

Order your copy of Symphony of the Sojourn by Rowan Alexandria Bennett here: www.amazon.com/dp/B0CS2GJL6X?...
Once called "Mad, bad, and dangerous to know," Lord George Gordon Byron was a mess of historic proportions. His talent was as famous as his bisexuality, along with numerous scandalous affairs, leading to his effective exile from England. But he also died a national hero in Greece, leaving Lord Byron with an incredibly mixed legacy. Come learn with me about this romantic scoundrel.
Donate to The Point Foundation here: pointfoundation.org/
Buy my graphic novel, Liberated: The Radical Art and Life of Claude Cahun: www.kazrowe.com/comics/cahun
shop.getty.edu/products/liber...
Find me on Twitter: / kazrowe
I'm on TikTok @ kazrowe
Find me on IG: / kaz.rowe
Buy my comics: gumroad.com/kazrowe
Send me a ko-fi: ko-fi.com/A347K4X
Read my webcomic: www.cunningfire.com/
Catch it on Tapas: tapas.io/series/cunning-fire
Line Webtoons: www.webtoons.com/en/challenge...
Captioning by Transcription, Ho! Captioning Services
Filmed using:
Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4k- www.blackmagicdesign.com/prod...
Blackmagic Video Assist 5” HDR - www.blackmagicdesign.com/prod...
Olympus M. Zuiko ED 12-40mm f/2.8 Pro- www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produc...
Samsung Portable SSD T5 - 2Tb- www.samsung.com/us/computing/...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Sources
Byron : life and legend by Fiona MacCarthy archive.org/details/byronlife...
Byron: The Sanity or Madness of Same-Sex Love by Rolf P. Lessenich
Least Like Saints: The Vexed Issue of Byron's Sexuality by Emily A. Bernhard Jackson
Dark Imaginings: Ideology and Darkness in the Poetry of Lord Byron By Geoff Payne
Byron Bisexual by Benjamin Markovits
“I unsex'd my dress”: Lord Byron's seduction of gender in “The Corsair”, “Lara”, and “Don Juan” by Alexis Spiceland Lee
Byron and Ottoman love: Orientalism, Europeanization and same-sex sexualities in the early nineteenth-century Levant by Peter Drucker
The Last Days of Lord Byron By William Parry
Lord Byron and the History of Desire by Ian Dennis
Lord Byron: Selected Letters and Journals By George Gordon Byron, edited by Leslie A. Marchand
Lord Byron and Scandalous Celebrity By Clara Tuite

[@user-iw7gu8rk5i]

RIP Lord Byron, you would’ve loved ketamine 💔

[@euansmith3699]

I imagine him living in the coked-up 80s.

[@k80_]

The world is lucky he died before the invention of poppers

[@cedaremberr]

​@@k80_😮😂🤣

[@CraftyVegan]

I always imagined him on MDMA 🤔

[@deanmaynard8256]

well he sure loved opiates.

[@mfuentes4961]

Have you ever considered doing a video on how you curate your outfits/looks for your videos? Because you always SERVE in all of your videos 💁🏽‍♀️

[@sophspice-zl7mn]

i would love to see that too, like where can you get those cool historical garments?

[@kyleanuar9090]

I hope Kaz will someday do a collab with Bernadette Banner on costumes, BB did a pirate's shirt which I thought would be perfect for Kaz.

[@FabulousSquidward]

I would absolutely watch

[@euansmith3699]

This particular outfit is especially awesome.

[@kathleenkilmartin5494]

@@kyleanuar9090that or Nicole Rudolph.

[@MelodyLee19]

i can’t believe this man is indirectly one of the reasons we have computers (his daughter was ada lovelace)

[@sc6658]

I like joking about how this means it’s his fault that pornbots exist.

[@tinkergnomad]

You do understand the full extent of his participation in that right? 💦 Why give a man credit for something a woman did? Edit: Even "indirectly." I've never seen anyone credit a man's mother with something he did (unless it's an unsolicited 🍆 pic).

[@lordbaphie]

And he is also one of the great influences for the genre of sexy vampires/Twilight 💀

[@SummerThymeMadness]

@@sc6658ahahahahahahhaha STEALING THAT ONE THANK YOU SO MUCH gonna make that domino meme about it omgs

[@Hollyberrystreats]

​@@sc6658That tracks

[@CAP198462]

Forget Patreon, Byron’s “Only Fans,” page would be indescribable.

[@archieman68]

he would advise his only fans on his poetry account 😭

[@Jane_8319]

I always forgot Byron hanged out with MARY SHELLY and JOHN POLIDORI. Absolute problematic legends the lot of them. Please talk about Mary Shelly.

[@MatthewTheWanderer]

It's "hung out" by the way. "Hanged" means something completely different and noose-related.

[@cursed3artemis]

And her mother because we need it!!! Also Polidori always intrigued me, specially since he usually is the "footnote" of the quartet.

[@ninab.4540]

Don't forget: Byron gave the world ADA LOVELACE.

[@cafeAmericano]

Can we stop dropping the word problematic like the word the? It's become one of those go-to words like "toxic", and is used for anything even vaguely complex or simply unpleasant . It's losing all meaning at this point.

[@user-bn6ht5eg4q]

@@cafeAmericanowhy it fits perfectly the way it is most often used when referring to people. Problematic literally means “constituting or presenting a problem or difficulty” usually referring to people were very morally complex/gray bordering on bad people and therefore difficult to understand or sympathize with from a moral perspective.

[@frogfrogcat26]

“[Byron] also had a close group of friends, one of which he was verifiably gay with” I mean, same

[@rcusick2465]

We've all been there. Only one? Sounds like he was holding back to me.

[@KMFerguson]

Kaz: Now, I know what you're wondering... Me: why did Mary Shelley keep a portion of Percy's skull? Kaz: Did Byron and the Shelley's have an affair Me: oh yeah sure that too

[@prosperpascoe3176]

honestly if I had the opportunity to keep a portion of percy’s skull it would be my prized possession and guarded with my life, and I wasn’t even married to the guy. I get it and I love that for her

[@rcusick2465]

Looking forward to YOUR video!

[@TwisterTornado]

I thought it was his heart, or possibly, a kidney?

[@j.s.walker3656]

It was both

[@LisEibh]

"Everyone desires you carnally. Everyone hates you...carnally 😢" 😂❤

[@VinceWhitacre]

It is a blessing and a curse

[@joanavitoria1961]

He had a... pet bear.

[@euansmith3699]

And didn't he have a baby giraffe too; or was that just in Ken Russel's "Gothic"?

[@ChristopherSadlowski]

I mean, the pet bear was the least weird thing he had going on. But it is still exceptionally weird.

[@cthulhucommander]

A pet bear... if ya know what I mean.😂

[@euansmith3699]

@@cthulhucommander Maybe an otter too?

[@patchworkpantsenjoyer]

i love the chaos of percy, mary, and byron's friendship 😭😭like the goth, theatre kid disaster-bisexual friend-group literally goes back to the regency era and i love that so much

[@morganburt2565]

i get the sentiment but i have a hard time uwu-ifying this pedo

[@aliendeathrocker]

Right?? It makes my goth theatre kid disaster bisexual heart *so* happy. I'm living for this.

[@purplespectre]

@@aliendeathrocker I wonder if there's someone out there who's goth, disaster bisexual, and a theatre kid all in one....

[@ConvincingPeople]

Byron's whole life was essentially nonstop queer anarchist polycule drama before anyone was using any of those terms.

[@aliendeathrocker]

@@purplespectre I am and it makes life just as chaotic as you'd think it would. 😅

[@CanelaAguila]

I love how Mary Shelley had a half-assed incestuous relationship in Frankenstein, my "headcanon" is that it's the result of a lot of justification speeches/ramblings from Byron that summer

[@hypo.critter]

she even has incestuous love between father and daughter in her next book - Mathilda, but there it’s actually nicely shown how damaging that is to both sides, especially to the young daughter

[@CthonicMysteries]

Ah, so "Byronic" is synonymous with "poor little meowmeow." I do so enjoy your work.

[@maryeckel9682]

Very drunk Howl mode

[@aricheec7722]

as a disabled bisexual survivor of grooming ive always found him to be a great example of how being refused empathy and love as a child can impact many peoples future. in the modern day, i think he would have been able to heal and recover his relationship with familial love. unfortunately for many, including himself, there was no field of study to help mitigate the effects of trauma.

[@TwisterTornado]

Yeah, sure. Only people back then were denied empathy and love.

[@aricheec7722]

@@TwisterTornado what are you talking about ma'am

[@TwisterTornado]

@@aricheec7722 Jerk

[@lbyblbab8496]

​@@aricheec7722bro did not bother actually reading your comment

[@aricheec7722]

@@lbyblbab8496 yeah that’s for sure. side note i thought you were them for a second lmfao.

[@sydney9011]

"What could possibly go wrong?" followed by "Byron Gets Cancelled" made me gut laugh!!!

[@rowanalexandriabennett]

Thanks so much for the kind review, Kaz! How appropriate that, in a video about a disaster bisexual, the character you highlight from my book is also inspired by a disaster bisexual.

[@fozziebean]

I read your first sentence and wondered how Lord Byron was commenting on this video and how he interpreted this bio as "kind". 😂

[@padghd]

He lived for a short time here in Portugal, in a villa near Sintra. He was forced to leave the country after a big scandal: he was getting closer to a very notable family, everyone believe he was about to get engaged with her, when became public that he was dating not the girl, but her brother!

[@haanym]

Stacy's brother in real life

[@MegCazalet]

Byron would definitely be the type to be an influencer on TikTok, Twitter, Intsta, and YT, etc, while acting like he was soooo above it all. He’d probably have that notable “bored TikTok affect” that many influencers speak in. He would also have a manosphere-adjacent podcast to talk about his lofty intellectual ideals and have all his love interests as guests.

[@43v3rh1d3n]

he would be a regular guest if not a host of the Guys We F*cked Podcast lol

[@tehbertl7926]

He'd definitely be showing off the Lamborghini in his garage while simultaneously saying "but what I really like is KNOWLEDGE"

[@tacoindoggie1731]

"uuhhh dream guest on my podcast? Hmm let's spice it up, one of my exes!"

[@cafeAmericano]

That would no doubt be the only way I would ever watch tiktok

[@ladyreverie7027]

He'd be Russell Brand tbh

[@AustinsMVs]

" SHIT ! if i inherited this thing id become really annoying too " you're so real for that

[@barkboingfloom]

"Furiously bisexual". Damn! I love that turn of phrase.

[@rcusick2465]

I've got to step up my game.

[@catherinegarrigan6075]

“Lady Caroline, with the chair!” 😂😂😂

[@aliendeathrocker]

💀💀

[@atomicdogmom]

Lady Caroline the real MVP 😂

[@joshuachapman4280]

I love the supposed description attributed to Byron of him being "mad, bad and dangerous to know." He's a fascinating person particularly if you believe the rumour that John Pollidori based the vampire in his book "The Vampyre" written during a stay with him and Mary Shelley during the year without a summer, on Byron. I do believe if I met him I'd want to kiss him but the urge to punch him would win out and I'd right hook him.

[@gabriellebertrand3054]

That’s an interesting connection. I’m thinking of Lestât from Interview with a Vampire to be a very Byronic character then 😂

[@charischannah]

Byron does sound like he would have been extremely punchable.

[@sarahwatts7152]

I love the outfits that Kaz wears for these, so stinking dapper. I think Byron was a hurt person hurting people - an explanation and definitely not an excuse

[@margauxf4321]

Pain is cyclical. The victim often becomes the abuser.

[@MaxOakland]

@@margauxf4321breaking that cycle is one of the most powerful and impressive choices a person can make

[@gardensofthegods]

​@@margauxf4321actually it's not often that the victim becomes the abuser ... it's some of them . A lot of people who have been abused even very early in life don't turn out to be the horrible disgusting abusers ... or even monsters that some become .

[@giorgosmichael9142]

The fact that he died in Mehssolongi in Greece in 1824, while commanding Greek Revolutionaries fighting against the Ottomans, shows what kind of a loose cannon he was.

[@nyctori]

YES kaz rowe shares the history of another "SILLY" GAY ARTIST and adds to my CONVERSATION POINTS AT THE DINNER TABLE

[@arcanistnpc4751]

My favorite Byron story is that time he disappeared for a few months and Shelley and Keats became worried. So Keats went to Italy after him. He apparently found Byron in a brothel, dehydrated as hell and on the verge of death. When Keats sent word back to Shelley, Shelley replied "Put him back where you found him." Even Shelley was done with Byron XD

[@purlypuss]

your byron in the bathtub cosplay was the best thing on the internet this week 😂❤😂❤

[@CharredFibers]

🎶Isn't it Byronic? Dontcha think? A little too Byronic. And yeah I really do think.🎶

[@gretablackwell495]

IT’S LIKE RAAAAAAAIN

[@JauntyCrepe]

🎶 on your friend fourway It’s the large debt that your dad didn’t pay~ 🎶

[@crumbs-into-pebbles]

@@JauntyCrepe *It's the good adviiiiice that you just didn't take*

[@justafallperson2108]

This is the BEST comment thread I've ever come across! Y'all are legends

[@CharredFibers]

I have a knack for starting song lyrics in a thread. My friends and I did the entire Bohemian Rhapsody on my FB once just because it was thundering and lightning outside. LOL My life is a movie soundtrack

[@mister13eyond]

After transition I chose the name "Byron" for myself, partially inspired by Lord Byron himself, and it always brings me joy (and/or amusement) hearing what a chaotic queer mess my namesake was. This was a great video, I've been hoping to see you cover Lord Byron for ages! Thank you for another super fun and entertaining dive into history!

[@thundercat287]

I took Alan Turing's middle name for not queer reasons so it was not intentional

[@MatthewTheWanderer]

I have used the name "Byron" for Sims characters myself, since it is such a cool sounding name.

[@TwisterTornado]

It's also just so plainly superior to "Brian"...

[@MatthewTheWanderer]

@@TwisterTornado Lol, exactly!

[@sommerblume9671]

Incest & obsession with young boys is always looked over though.

[@wingedhatchling]

As a woman who programs I started screaming when you said the name "Ada Lovelace" Grandmother of Binary!!!

[@gardensofthegods]

Yes and forgive me for saying it sounds like her father was the Godfather of Bi .

[@allisonfarrell7968]

Byron-ary?

[@silversam]

"I dont see whats so 'intellectual' about wandering around Italy in a puffy shirt trying to get laid." - Edmund Blackadder III, Royal Butler My romanticism professor introduced us to Byron as "probably the first person to achieve fame the way rock stars have today... No, I'm serious!" He also said Byron had a relatively "crude ear" and "other problems" before getting into Childe Harold. It was around then that I began to think he was trying to tell us without telling us that not just Byron, but romanticism in general was riddled with some great evil that he couldnt quite put his finger on... until we read Frankenstein, which we all agreed was pretty much the apotheosis of the whole era. Anyway, enough of that. Enjoyed this a lot! Thanks for making it 😊

[@AmarisFrede]

Sounds like a cool class you had!

[@lisahoshowsky4251]

“Dionysiun Chaos” is a really evocative description😆

[@braydonthegreat5099]

The audio doesnt bother me but I adore that you filmed a whole section warning us about it. You're too good to us 😂

[@MaxOakland]

I wouldn’t even notice it 😊

[@SniffanyBlues]

Yeah it didn't bother me at all, but I respect the attention to detail

[@MegCazalet]

I like the “Byronic Hero” so much more than I like Byron himself. He was such a jerk to Clair Clairmont. Though she kind of made herself a pest after being repeatedly rejected, but the way he treated her and her daughter when Clair was clearly tormented, makes me sad. She idolized that man.

[@annaSHRRR]

He doesn’t owe her anything just because she’s obsessed with him. Actually, the opposite. She was ANNOYING, we all would do the same in his place

[@annaSHRRR]

He doesn’t owe her anything just because she’s obsessed with him. Actually, the opposite. She was ANNOYING, we all would do the same in his place

[@BlancheNeigefan]

@@annaSHRRR He was a nineteenth century man who had premarital sex with a woman. He owed her security and safety at the very least. Even more after she got pregnant. He did not adequately provide for her or her child, and what help he did give came after much prompting. Let's not apply 21st century morality to this situation: you don't get to have "boundaries" when you basically condemn a member of a vulnerable group to social death with your irresponsibility and you aren't "a stalker" just because you internalized the belief that sex=love and love=marriage and being a fallen woman=death after it was hammered into you by the combined powers of Hester Chapone, Hannah More, James Fordyce, Jane West and every conduct book writer of the time.

[@chloeedmund4350]

@@BlancheNeigefanhe couldn't even give himself security and he was an actual aristocrat. Stalking and begetting a child with a mess like Byron is not exactly the best idea in the world for a woman of any time.

[@carsonramsey5503]

⁠​⁠@@chloeedmund4350do you think she, as the seventeen year old who byron had sex with as a full grown twenty eight year old man, would have been aware that byron, a man she looked up to, as a lord apparently couldn’t provide for his self? Also I can totally see her ignoring the red flags and making the conclusion that byron’s deteriorating relationship with his wife would lead to a situation where she could later marry him because that’s literally exactly what happened with percy and mary.

[@RachaelLongLastName]

This NEEDS to become an “Our Flag Means Death”-esque show. It’s just too perfect

[@MatthewTheWanderer]

Agreed! Lord Byron had far too interesting of a life to not have a show!

[@hughcaldwell1034]

Honestly, I was thinking it could work as a crass, intellectual animated comedy. Some blend of Archer and BoJack Horseman. Can't comment on the OFMD connection, as I'm yet to watch it.

[@MatthewTheWanderer]

@@hughcaldwell1034 That also sounds interesting!

[@hughcaldwell1034]

@@MatthewTheWanderer Well, glad you think so. Honestly, I wasn't sure if it was a terrible idea :- especially as my eye condition means I have very little grasp of animation styles and what kinds of atmospheres they convey.

[@MatthewTheWanderer]

@@hughcaldwell1034 It would certainly be unusual, though. I don't know of any history-based animated adult comedy-dramas like that.

[@ScarletRebel96]

Lord Byron is like the dark souls boss fight of bisexuality and thats something i can definitely appreciate 😊

[@bostonsandatot4948]

"Byron's favorite genre of mess" 😂

[@human_plant]

Bro's like a level 1,000 bisexual

[@JinxDagger]

"Regency era All or Nothing" made me laugh so hard i cried omfg. this might actually be my new favorite Kaz video

[@mousequeer]

According to a display in the Mary Shelley museum in Bath, Byron asked to keep Percy Shelley's skull but was refused "due to a story of him once using a human skull as a drinking cup." Really normal social group there.

[@nbhubbard]

Odd story: A number of years back I was in a Kroger's store where I found a book titled. Women and Their Demon Lovers, on one of those turn-style thingies - that used to be in stores everywhere - which claimed to contain true stories of everyday women suddenly being tormented by randy ghosts. One of them was an account of a lady Byron scholar who become possessed by the spirit of Lord B. At first she finds it exciting, but over time he becomes more and more abusive. I guess even Death couldn't slow him down.

[@christophercastanon2277]

Lord Byron. A Train Wreck DEMANDING TO HAPPEN.

[@zaraandrews600]

My grandad used to be a stonemason at Newstead Abbey when I was a child. It is interesting you mentioned how well kept it is today, because, actually, the building has been falling into disrepair. I visited recently and the staff were talking about how they are really struggling to care for the building and the grounds because the council which owns it is bankrupt. Some buildings have had water damage due to the roof needing repair and the gardens have become overgrown in areas. Nearly all the staff there are volunteers too. Previously, when my grandad worked there (around 15 years ago) they had a team of stone masons, gardeners, stewards etc. to care for the place. The gardens were immaculate and the building was kept in repair.

[@pansepot1490]

Don’t you have the National Trust in the UK that takes care of historical buildings and sites? I heard the Tories have been cutting funding for everything. If the local council is broke and struggles to maintain it, it would make more sense to hand the place over to the NT.

[@zaraandrews600]

@@pansepot1490 We have several charities that care for historic buildings, but, the charities have to be willing to take on the historic building. If they need too much work done to them, making it very costly, then National Trust or English Heritage are less likely to take the place on. Also, Newstead Abbey is one of the few historic buildings the council has which makes them money, so they are less likely to get rid of it due to that. They did sell Sherwood Forest to RSPB a number of years ago, but that was because it was operating at a loss.

[@phoebemurtagh3059]

My friend was recently called Byronic and texted me to ask if he should be insulted. My take was "no... *BUT*..." 😂

[@bostonsandatot4948]

Forever my 80s teen crush, brought to life watching Gothic. Well, he went from rake to just gross after watching this video. RIP Julian Sands and Natasha Richardson.

[@euansmith3699]

I guess that Julian, himself, met with a rather Byronic fate; alone on a storm-raked mountain. 😭

[@NicoleM_radiantbaby]

SAME! I remember finding 'Gothic' at the height of my 80s Byron obsession and it was such a fave of mine!

[@gardensofthegods]

Yeah I think he was gross too and I'll bet you this doesn't even tell us the whole truth about him because he probably was worse than what has been told about him .

[@chriswilson4112]

AH GOTHIC! Yea...remember when those small independent movies were the cool thing to go see? Especially if it were in a city and you went to the cool movie theater. One felt so "in". LOL

[@kenbrown2927]

You should do a video on Anne Lister!!! I was so obsessed/passionate about the show, Gentleman Jack, that I got a tattoo dedicated to Anne!!

[@AidanOAArch]

Are we not going to Mention the other story about Annabella going into labor with Adda, where she complained that Byron was in the room below her, throwing things at the ceiling and yelling to torment her, and Byron responded by saying that no, he was just passing time by chopping the tops of champagne bottles with a saber and the corks happened to hit the ceiling, and that was the noise, and he only went to the theater when Arabella told him to knock it off? 10/10 chaotic mess.

[@honeyLXIX]

I like that you were slightly annoyed talking about Byron's escapades 🤭

[@lilpetz500]

Please I can't be giggling that hard at the line "Everyone hates you, carnally" it's late and I have work tomorrow 😂😂

[@oldu_5306]

Oh my god, just a couple days ago i thought "damn Lord Byron seems to be such an interesting fellow, i have to do research about him, wish Kaz had a video about him in their amazing in-depth exploration style". And wouldn't you know it, i return home from work and it's here!!!! Thank you so much, you made my evening 😂😂

[@bostonsandatot4948]

I know I've commented way too often here yet I'm so excited about this Byron exploration as my best friend and I were eaten up with Byron and romanticism as 80s teens. She even went to Greece for her graduation gift. She was murdered by a stranger just months later, while living alone off campus. In true Byronic romantic fashion, I've missed her every day and this deep dive into our shared interest was both intriguing and well .. kinda yucky.

[@mr.stealyourjams]

Oh man, that’s awful! I’m sorry to hear about your friend. 😢

[@SummerThymeMadness]

that was literally such a TURN of events at the end there omg…sorry about your friend! i hope you heal 🤍

[@haanym]

Im so sorry about your friend

[@unabashedlybashful]

His time in Venice was both epic and hysterical. Surprised he didn't pick up some deadly illness during his swims up and down the Grand Canal, much less during his romantic escapades!

[@idridian]

kaz: what could possibly go wrong? chapter title card: "Byron Gets Cancelled"

[@SamyTheBookWorm]

Lord Byron is buried in the church at the end of my road. I can’t believe you were literally here in my town a few weeks ago 😂

[@TheSoundonly12]

Damn, I'll never slut-shame Lord Byron again. That childhood trauma probably played a role.

[@RainbyFIN]

It's still ok to shame him for the p*dophilic stuff though. It's not like it cancels out the victimhood of the underage if the pervy adult was once also a victim

[@GBart]

Lol it sounds like a cat gently licking some cellophane next to the mic

[@VinceWhitacre]

I'm so glad Byron lived 200 years ago and not today... So much better the poetry we have from him rather than the "toxic gossip train" stuff he'd be writing today.

[@maryeckel9682]

I can see him sitting down at a Broadwood grand piano and going all Beethoven. BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM "These rumours, ah, these dastardly rumors that dog my heels like...a pack of hounds? Oh damn!"

[@maryeckel9682]

Damn ads ate my response, but I see him pounding away at a Broadwood grand piano, howling about the dastardly rumours that hound him like...a pack of hounds.

[@DorianMatt]

The shot of you staring out the window w/ the Byronically popped collar at 37:16 was the final nail in my coffin, this is simply too good. You have provided us with a hilarious, enthralling, albeit exhausting, tale of woe. Thank you for your service, king.

[@anniel6479]

I would honestly love a Regency-era All or Nothing about Byron and Hobhouse, they sound hilarious together. I'm also going to have to add "verifiably gay" to my vocabulary.

[@furuyawn]

"regency era all or nothing" fucking sent me lmfao

[@phantasmagore7991]

william godwin was claire clairemont's step-father, she never married

[@nhmisnomer]

Thanks. I love Kaz but that was bugging me.

[@rcusick2465]

Agreed. I left a comment saying the same but it seems to have disappeared. Also, Percy *Bysshe Shelley, not Percy Blythe Shelley. But it's a great video and I love the dry humor.

[@phantasmagore7991]

@@rcusick2465 hail to thee blythe spirit...

[@lilacsunset3848]

Ohh this was confusing me. I watched the movie Mary Shelley and it portrayed Mary and Clair as sisters.

[@aprilconnett5148]

This video, like all of yours, was great. There is just one minor thing I would like to correct for you. Byron’s Don Juan was a satire of the Spanish folk legend, Don Juan. Part of the satire was the pronunciation. It is not pronounced in correct Spanish. Byron’s satire is actually pronounced “Don Ju-un” with the “j” sound and the accent on the first syllable. (I have a degree in English Education, please don’t be upset by the correction😊)

[@MegCazalet]

Ah, like the play Camino Real.

[@maryeckel9682]

The first time I heard it said, my brain went 🤯

[@CaylasCapsule]

“His university years seemed to be uneventful. Other than the bear.” Legit laughed out loud. 😆😂🤣

[@lucastapleton558]

Such a great, well made video! I’m actually a descendant of Lukas Chalandritsanos, Byron’s last object of his desire, so it’s always a crazy feeling to hear my ancestor mentioned.

[@uburoi9406]

Holy shit here it is. Making myself a tea and bringing a warm blanket to watch this comfy

[@willowtdog6449]

It’s such a tragedy to lose the memoirs of such a strong writer. His daughter was such a genius, I believe he really must have been, as well. I don’t think the audio was that bad, don’t stress! :)

[@thrillhouse4151]

My late ex used to compare me to Lord Byron all the time, such a flattering sentiment, I miss her so much. If anything she was the Byron.

[@NicoleM_radiantbaby]

Back when I was a teen queer in the late 80s, I was as obsessed with Byron as I was with some rock/pop stars of the day. He was just so intriguing to me back then (seriously, in my senior year I high school I did a paper on him...by choice) and had that intrigue been more recent, I might have described him in modern parlance as 'he's so gender'. Obviously, much like what happens when you learn about the dark side of your fave celebrity's life in any time period, some of the details of Byron's life don't sit as well with me as I've grown up. But I have to say, that at 51 years old, I still have a weird soft spot for him -- or at least the IDEA of him -- and how his nonconformity really pushed me toward my own in my youth. And so I'll always love that aspect of him and his 'Bryonic Hero' legacy, in a way. Despite all the bad stuff, of course.

[@i0m0s]

as a greek myself and a resident of the town of Missolonghi, I wish I could put into words how much of an icon he is for us. the statues, the paintings and the buildings we have dedicated to him.... every year we commemorate his doings and praise him for the things he did for the greek cause. So, every year I eagerly remind everyone of his other side that everyone tries to conceal; the reactions are always so funny, lol.

[@Demonreached]

"Historical figure youtube apologies" is a series I would watch!

[@FishareFriendsNotFood972]

LIVING for your Byron fit, you rocked it

[@Melonlordrinrei]

Half of Lord Byron's issues stem from the fact that he lived in Aberdeen, my city, and he would be perfectly normal for here. (We do have a vague note on him having a gambling house with a local landlord and that he tripped over the beach running from the police at one point, but that might just be a story.)

[@_local.alien_]

As someone who LOVES your channel and history and also grew up in Nottingham I jumped SO fast on this notification! Lord Byron was insanely talked about in my English classes in school and would always come up in conversation. I love this!!

[@creepycutiecrafty6637]

We now definitely need a ByronTube channel. The idea is horrifyingly enticing…. The mention of s*xual abuse by his nanny reminds me of a topic highlighted on the QI quiz show (I believe it was) They mentioned that at various points in history, Nannie’s would - erm - “assist” the slumber of their male charges. Horrible though the idea is, it hasn’t always been seen as something inherently wrong. It would still have messed up a young mind though - which I guess explains a lot about the upper classes here in England… Ada was also pushed more into maths and logic by her mother - hoping to educate her out of her father’s madness, apparently. I mean, I guess her mother was desperate! Byron was a disaster everything - and seems more than a tad addicted to drama! Incredible man, if not a good guy, and handy for any storytellers. I wonder if he’d be diagnosed with any mental or emotional disorders nowadays. However entertaining his antics, you can’t help but feel sorry for his ex-conquests, or his children. Amazing video! So interesting - and I hope Kaz experienced a warm welcome here in Blighty

[@katszulga1888]

"...other than the bear" might be the best exception that has ever been articulated.

[@indigohalf]

The shot of you from behind brooding at the window got a chuckle out of me. What a perfect image, especially with that costume! The drama and silliness come through without even needing to show your face- that's the power of Regency menswear.

[@sasusakufangirl]

The apology video sketch in the beginning had me laughing out loud XD But in all seriousness, it was a really interesting video - I would love to see a video on Mary (and Percy) Shelley if possible :)

[@thatguyp4411]

Great vid! Although I must point out one little error here. Claire Clairmont was not married to William Godwin. She was his stepdaughter through his marriage to her mother, named Mary as well. Also, since she was unmarried at the time, it might have explained why it was she who pursued Byron and not the other way round.

[@CanelaAguila]

Regency era All or Nothing, oh god 😂😂😂 Perfect timing for my big brain phase of connecting a lot of disperate historic people that I never realized were contemporaties, and were all somehow connected with Byron

[@maryeckel9682]

Six Degrees of Lord Byron

[@atiya-said-hey]

Byron had you descending into spins homeboy. I appreciate your sacrifice for this video.

[@villyardk]

Great vid! But yes, Claire was William’s stepdaughter/Mary’s stepsister. I’d love for you to do a vid on Mary. She used to go nap on her mother’s grave. When Claire was traveling with Mary and Percy, they used to tell each other ghost stories (even without Byron). One morning Mary woke up and found Percy and Claire sitting up in the living room, too afraid to get up after spending the night scaring each other with ghost stories, and laughed at them. Goth Queen.

[@tracimcmurray5244]

I learned about Lord Byron in high school. My uncle was named Byron. His son, my cousin, was named Byron. I had a Beta fish named Byron. Yeah, I've felt linked to this name for a while now and George Gordon is a highly interesting figure to me, including taking an entire semester of British Romantics, so I could learn more about him. Pre-internet days. Thanks for covering this topic. Always enjoy your content.

[@valeriadonati9836]

I first learned about lord byron because he was cited in an article about people with eating disorders in the past. Lovely

[@bostonsandatot4948]

8 minutes in and I'm hoping for a mention of another bi artist who did the whole Screamin Lord Byron character that set my 80s adolescent soul on fire. (It was Bowie for those not coming of age in early Mtv lol)

[@maryeckel9682]

I just almost inhaled popcorn watching that bathtub apology.

[@akuugawa6914]

I took a British Romanticism class my junior year of college. One of the people we talked about was Lord Byron. I always think back to my professor who said that had Lord Byron lived today, he definitely thinks he would be a "they/them." 😭😭 like okay, ally?

[@cornflakes-does-stuff]

that apologie video and the title card "Byron gets cancelled" had me rolling, all your videos atret amazing, but this is a certfied batnger!

[@benjaminlammertz64]

Imagine hanging out with Mary "i lost my virginity on my mother's tombstone" Shelly and still being the biggest walking disaster in the room.

[@ashtray8167]

I’m majoring in Art Education and hopefully Art History as well someday. Your videos as well as my talented professors have inspired me to learn so much about history and everything involved. Thank you much for caring so deeply about us and donating to help us!!

[@maryeckel9682]

Feed that savings account early and often in this post capitalist hellscape. Art History degree holder who got paid for teaching two semesters in the mid 90s and never got paid for it again 😂 but it sure fed my neurodivergent skill of connecting absolutely everything. Miss Jane Austen might have said "Money is dirt," but that was after she made some 😂

[@euansmith3699]

The setting, costume and presentation are all excellent; what a joyous video. "Here comes Lady Caroline, with a chair!" 😄😄😄

[@Fooma777]

Ohhhh YES!!!🎉 I’ve been low key waiting for this!!

[@ruleroftheclouds]

Ahh so excited to watch this! Saving it as a special treat for tomorrow after I have finished giving a super important presentation I have been working on for days...

[@salemgothic9436]

I actually screamed when I got the notification for this video! ❤ well done again as always!

[@apoorvaranjan9921]

I SOOOOO NEEDED A VIDEO FROM YOU!!! And also NEEDES a video about him so thank you, thank you so much!!! You are a literal blessing to my life

[@eliieam]

this is perfect timing!!! in my art history lecture on classicism today my professor mentioned byrons death and i got so excited because i knew i would come home to this video.

[@wickedsquid]

I am always overjoyed with every new kaz drop but especially for this topic!

[@lbyblbab8496]

thank you for a new video! just brightened up my tuesday quite a bit!

[@GarageBandKing012]

If I'm not mistaken wasn't John Polidori also present for the writing contest between Byron and the Shelleys? It was his love of Byron's story, and his general infatuation of Byron, that lead to him writing the Vampyre which featured a lord described strangely similar to Byron himself.

[@okayashe]

A new video, yay! Just in time for lunch ❤

[@JauntyCrepe]

Oh god I am SO excited for this video. Thank you in advance!!

[@NormDeMoss]

Beautiful stuff, as always. Informative, engaging, measured, well-researched, and fabulously entertaining.