Shelley's Cenci Scorpinons Ringed With Fire: Scorpions Ringed with Fire (Princeton Legacy Library) - Hardcover

Curran, Stuart

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0691061963 ISBN 13: 9780691061962

Verlag: Princeton University Press, 1970

Inhaltsangabe

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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Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1970
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0691061963
• ISBN 13: 9780691061962
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 326
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