Author: Alexandre DumasPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734059372
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Cenci by Alexandre Dumas
The Cenci
Author: Alexandre DumasPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734059372
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Cenci by Alexandre Dumas
The Cenci
Author: Percy Bysshe ShelleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rome (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
A Study Guide for Antonin Artaud's "The Cenci"
Author: Gale, Cengage LearningPublisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410342530
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
A Study Guide for Antonin Artaud's "The Cenci," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.
Beatrice's Spell
Author: Belinda Elizabeth JackPublisher:
ISBN: 9781844137619
Category : Criminals in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Beatrice Cenci was executed in Rome in September 1599- she was said to be sixteen, and was hauntingly beautiful. Her crime was the murder of her father, a member of one of the greatest Roman families, but his cruel treatment of her, including incestuous rape, moved the people of the city to take her side. Weeping crowds lined the streets, and a special mass is still said in Rome on the anniversary of her death. She was at once innocent and guilty, the victim and the perpetrator of appalling crimes. From that time since, the ambivalent image of Beatrice has attracted writers and artists, and often their obsession with her fed their own self-destruction. In this compelling study, Belinda Jack takes on the dangerous challenge of bringing Beatrice to life, and of tracing her power over those who tried to resurrect her, from the tragedy of Shelley to the novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville, from the sculpture of Harriet Hosmer and the photographs of Julia Margaret Cameron to the desperate drama of Antonin Artaud. As we follow the stories of their lives and ambitions, we see how they suffered critical condemnation for their works about Beatrice, and were sometimes pushed to the brink of insanity. Her story, which is one of lust, passion and violence, contains a powerful sense of the forbidden, the taboo that drives people over the edge. BEATRICE'S SPELL is at once scholarly and utterly engrossing, carrying the power of her story through time.
The Cenci
Author: Marie-Henri Beyle StendhalPublisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 147337992X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
A wonderful biography of a fictional modern don Juan.
Shelley's CENCI
Author: Stuart CurranPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400867975
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
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.
A Study of Shelley's Drama The Cenci
Author: Ernest Sutherland BatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
A critical examination of Percy Shelley's drama, The Cenci, inspired by an Italian family. Looks at the history, dramatic structure, characterization, and style of Shelley's verses.
The Borgias. The Cenci
Author: Alexandre DumasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
A Roman Scandal
Author: Susanne KircherPublisher:
ISBN: 9780884053620
Category : Rome (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The Cenci
Author: StendhalPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781974390199
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
The play opens with Cardinal Camillo discussing with Count Francesco Cenci a murder in which Cenci is implicated. Camillo tells Cenci that the matter will be hushed up if Cenci will relinquish a third of his possessions, his property beyond the Pincian gate, to the Church. Count Cenci has sent two of his sons, Rocco and Cristofano, to Salamanca, Spain in the expectation that they will die of starvation. The Count's virtuous daughter, Beatrice, and Orsino, a prelate in love with Beatrice, discuss petitioning the Pope to relieve the Cenci family from the Count's brutal rule.