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Shelley's Cenci: Scorpions Ringed with Fire

by Stuart Curran
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780691647548
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Princeton University Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 326
  • Original Price: USD 153.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 631 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Shelley's tragedy, The Cenci, has been regarded as an avant-garde attack on orthodox Christian principles, a celebrated cause for Victorian intellectuals, a vehicle for innovative minds of the theater, a historical oddity, a neglected masterpiece. Derived from the dark legends of one of Rome's great families, the Cenci records a history of sadism, incest, and murder.

Shelley's one actable play has received little attention in modern times. Professor Curran studies it first as a poem-its patterns, themes, imagery-then as a play. After showing its relationship to England's Regency theater, he analyzes the fascinating course of its stage history, and finds Shelley foreshadowing such modern emphases as psychodrama, the existential vision, the Theatre of Cruelty.

Originally published in 1970.

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