Dr. Kate Lister

And as much as Byron's ever going to do, he kind of settles down with her.

She eventually has her marriage dissolved.

And by that point, he's bored of her and he moves on.

But he's in Italy, in Venice, writing poems, being notorious and having a lot of sex.

And he likes that very much.

He likes the freedom that comes in Italy and in Greece.

And he gets very angry and upset with the hypocrisy of the British as he saw it.

So he's doing that.

He spends quite a long time there, actually, a few years.

And does he write?

Is he writing?

Is he...

Yeah, he's writing.

He's writing all the time.

This big poem, Don Juan, which was considered very scandalous.

It was unfinished at the time of his death.

He was publishing cantos of it as he's going along.

It tells the story of this sort of legendary Spanish lover, Don Juan, and he's kind of reappropriating that particular narrative.

Again, very, very scandalous.

He had big arguments with his publishers about whether or not he should be allowed to publish it as is.