Date, 1818. Published by Garnett, 1862, and the SONG by Mrs. Shelley, 1824. Shelley writes to Peacock regarding the drama: 'I have devoted this summer, and indeed the next year, to the composition of a tragedy on the subject of Tasso's madness; which, find upon inspection, is, if properly treated, admirably dramatic and poetical. But you will say I have no dramatic talent. Very true, in a certain sense; but I have taken the resolution to see what kind of tragedy a person without dramatic talent could write. It shall be better morality than Fazio, and better poetry than Bertram, at least.'