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Shelley's CENCI: Scorpions Ringed with Fire
By (Author) Stuart Curran
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: plays and playwrights
822.7
Hardback
326
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
624g
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,