"The Cenci" (1819) is a tragedy by Shelley based on a real-life Italian scandal, focusing on Beatrice Cenci's struggle against her abusive father. Considered a significant romantic play, its controversial themes made it unsuitable for contemporary stage performance.
Shelley's 1819 tragedy, 'The Cenci,' adapted from a notorious Italian event, is considered a powerful romantic stage play, though its subject matter made performance difficult. It focuses on Beatrice Cenci's family conspiracy to murder her abusive father, Count Francesco.
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| Back | a five act tragedy Shelley 1819 the single most impressive stage play to have been written by any of the romantic poets, its subject made performance unlikely in the theater of the time theater of cruelty count Francesco cenci , a vicious husband and father with a sadistic taste for punishment, combines hatred for his daughter, Beatrice with incestuous lust the family conspires to have him killed suspected and tortured , they are brought to trial, and then they are executed Shelly made Beatrice as the central figure of his tragedy |
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