The Annotated Shelley: The Cenci (Shelley for Students)

The Annotated Shelley: The Cenci (Shelley for Students)

A fully-annotated edition of Shelley's gothic drama, The Cenci - A Tragedy in Five Acts (1819). After enduring years of monstrous cruelty and abuse, Beatrice Cenci murders her father and is forced to confront the corrupt legal system of sixteenth-century Rome. As well as a reliable version of the definitive text, there are notes glossing difficult lines, and references are provided to deepen understanding, stimulate discussion and promote wider reading. The appendix contains two key intertexts: Shelley's principal source, Mary's translation of Relation on the Death of the Cenci Family from Muratori's Italian chronicles (1744), and Alexandre Dumas' popular re-telling, Les Cenci (1839).