Lord Byron in popular culture from characterisations of Byron. The image of a vampire portrayed as an aristocrat was created by John William Polidori in "The Vampyre", during the summer of 1816 which he spent in the company of Byron. The titled Count Dracula is a reprise of this character. Tom Holland, in his 1995 novel "The Vampyre: Being the True Pilgrimage of George Gordon, Sixth Lord Byron", romantically describes how Lord Byron became a vampire during his first visit to Greece — a fictional transformation that explains much of his subsequent behaviour towards family and friends, and finds support in quotes from Byron poems
Lord Byron in popular culture plays con-man/thief-turned-FBI consultant Neal Caffrey, working under cover as substitute English teacher Mr. Cooper. During a class, Mr. Cooper has the class close their books and then recites Lord Byron's poem, "She Walks In Beauty"... Byron was the subject of a 1908 play, "Byron", by Alicia Ramsey, and its 1922 film adaptation "A Prince of Lovers", in which he was played by Howard Gaye. Tom Stoppard's play "Arcadia" revolves around a modern researcher's attempts to find out what made Byron leave the country, while Howard Brenton's play "Bloody Poetry" features Byron, in addition to Polidori, the Shelleys and Claire Clairmont.