Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
The Cenci Annotated

The Cenci Annotated

Dumas, Alexandre

Paperback

General World HistoryPlays

Currently unavailable to order

ISBN13: 9798746292117
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 29 2021
Pages: 44
Weight: 0.14
Height: 0.09 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The Cenci, A Tragedy, in Five Acts (1819) is a verse drama in five acts by Percy Bysshe Shelley written in the summer of 1819, and inspired by a real Italian family, the House of Cenci (in particular, Beatrice Cenci, pronounced CHEN-chee). Shelley composed the play in Rome and at Villa Valsovano near Livorno, from May to August 5, 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. Shelley told Thomas Love Peacock that he arranged for the printing himself because in Italy it costs, with all duties and freightage, about half of what it would cost in London. Shelley sought to have the play staged, describing it as totally different from anything you might conjecture that I should write; of a more popular kind... written for the multitude. Shelley wrote to his publisher Charles Ollier that he was confident that the play will succeed as a publication. A second edition appeared in 1821, his only published work to go into a second edition during his lifetime.

Also in

Plays

View All