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Shelley's CENCI : Scorpions Ringed with Fire / Stuart Curran.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1267Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©1970Description: 1 online resource (326 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780691620824
  • 9781400867974
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 822/.7
LOC classification:
  • PR5408
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- The Poem -- I. Shelley and His Critics -- II. Tradition and an Individual Talent -- III. The Spectrum of Character -- IV. Imagery and the Play of the Passions -- V. The Tragic Resolution -- THE PLAY -- VI. Shelley and the Romantic Theater -- VII. Singularly Fitted for the Stage -- VIII. The Structure of Non-Action -- Index
Summary: 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.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- The Poem -- I. Shelley and His Critics -- II. Tradition and an Individual Talent -- III. The Spectrum of Character -- IV. Imagery and the Play of the Passions -- V. The Tragic Resolution -- THE PLAY -- VI. Shelley and the Romantic Theater -- VII. Singularly Fitted for the Stage -- VIII. The Structure of Non-Action -- Index

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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.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Issued also in print.

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In English.

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