Shelley's 'Cenci': Scorpions Ringed With Fire

Curran, S

ISBN 10: 0691061963 / ISBN 13: 9780691061962

Published by Princeton University Press, 1970

About this Item

This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains pencil markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,650grams, ISBN:0691061963.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Shelley's 'Cenci': Scorpions Ringed With Fire
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication Date: 1970
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691061963
• ISBN 13: 9780691061962
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fair
• Weight: 650 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • English Literature

About this title

Synopsis

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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