The Cenci: A Tragedy in Five Acts. Second edition
Creator
Date
1821
Identifier
Special Collections PR5408 A1 1821
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Publisher
London: C. and J. Ollier
Abstract
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) married Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (1797-1851) in 1816, and their writings carried on the political engagement of Mary’s parents. Mary Shelley’s most famous work, Frankenstein (1818), shows the influence of both her parents’ thinking. Percy’s The Cenci uses the lurid story of a sixteenth-century Italian family to address a central human dilemma: should a moral individual employ violence to overthrow tyranny?
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Citation
Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Cenci: A Tragedy in Five Acts. Second edition,” ourheritage.ac.nz | OUR Heritage, accessed April 16, 2024, https://ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/10173.