SexViolHist Bib: Representations: Literature: Percy Bysshe Shelley

»Percy Bysshe Shelley (/bɪʃ/ ⓘ BISH; 4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was an English writer who is considered one of the major English Romantic poets. A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not achieve fame during his lifetime, but recognition of his achievements in poetry grew steadily following his death, and he became an important influence on subsequent generations of poets, including Robert Browning, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Thomas Hardy, and W. B. Yeats.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

The Cenci

I n f o r m a t i o n

»The Cenci. A Tragedy, in Five Acts (/ˈtʃɛntʃi/ CHEN-chee; 1820) is a verse drama in five acts by Percy Bysshe Shelley written in the summer of 1819, and inspired by a real Roman family, the House of Cenci (in particular, Beatrice Cenci). Shelley composed the play in Rome and at Villa Valsovano near Livorno, from May to 5 August 1819. The work was published by Charles and James Ollier in London in 1819. The Livorno edition was printed in Livorno, Italy by Shelley himself in a run of 250 copies. (...)
The play was not considered stageable in its day due to its themes of incest and parricide, and was not performed in public in England until 1922, when it was staged in London.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 19^th Century

II. Geographical Index: European History: English History

III. Topical Index: Types General: Rape

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Affleckt, Stacy. Mythical Creatures: The Gothic/Romantic Evolution of the Pained Female Rape Victim. M.A. Thesis, Rutgers-The States University of New Jersey, 2013.

[Info] Chen, Amadeus K. »“…to poison and corrupt her soul”: Shelley’s Poetic Designs of Incest in The Cenci.« Forum No. 24 (2017).

[Info] Fenno, Colleen. »Remembering Beatrice Remembering: Sexual Crime and Silence in Shelley's The Cenci.« Essays in Romanticism 22 (2015): 35-51.

[Info] Groseclose, Barbara. »The Incest Motif in Shelley's The Cenci.« Comparative Drama 19 (1985): 222-239.

[Info] Jamshidian, Sahar, et al. »Modern Rape-Revenge Movies and Percy Bysshe Shelley’s The Cenci.« k@ta 22 (2020): 70-78.

[Info] Potkay, Monica B. »Incest as Theology in Shelley's The Cenci.« Wordsworth Circle 35 (2004): 57-65.

[Info] Robinson, Peter. Sexual Violence and Literary Art. London 2026.

II. Speaker Index