A Study of Shelley's Drama The CenciColumbia University Press, 1908 - 103 sider |
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... crimes and miseries in which she was an actor and a sufferer are as the mask and the mantle in which circumstances clothed her for her impersonation on the scene of the world . " It is worth while to compare with this description one by ...
... crimes and miseries in which she was an actor and a sufferer are as the mask and the mantle in which circumstances clothed her for her impersonation on the scene of the world . " It is worth while to compare with this description one by ...
Side 7
... crimes . The church is ruinous and disused . Like the palace , it is divided and let out in tenements to poor people , whose broken flower- pots crowded the window - sills . . . . From Shelley's descrip- tion , in the preface to his ...
... crimes . The church is ruinous and disused . Like the palace , it is divided and let out in tenements to poor people , whose broken flower- pots crowded the window - sills . . . . From Shelley's descrip- tion , in the preface to his ...
Side 12
... crimes was radically im- moral , tending to destroy that unconsciousness of evil which it believed to be the surest safeguard . It congratulated the poet , indeed , on having shown the ability to leave his " cold abstrac- tions " and ...
... crimes was radically im- moral , tending to destroy that unconsciousness of evil which it believed to be the surest safeguard . It congratulated the poet , indeed , on having shown the ability to leave his " cold abstrac- tions " and ...
Side 13
... crime for such a cause - she tries to avoid death by the meanest arts of falsehood , and encourages her accom- plices to endure the extremities of torture rather than implicate her by confession . " The banquet scene in the first act ...
... crime for such a cause - she tries to avoid death by the meanest arts of falsehood , and encourages her accom- plices to endure the extremities of torture rather than implicate her by confession . " The banquet scene in the first act ...
Side 14
... crime was dictated by a horror of her act , so intense in character that she found it necessary to re- gard the event as a hideous dream , that by no possibility could ever really have happened ( an interpretation which unfor- tunately ...
... crime was dictated by a horror of her act , so intense in character that she found it necessary to re- gard the event as a hideous dream , that by no possibility could ever really have happened ( an interpretation which unfor- tunately ...
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Alma Murray appears audience Beatrice Cenci Beatrice's Bernardo Byron Camillo cent characteristics characterization characters chief closet drama Coleridge Coleridge's Colonna Palace contemporary Count Cenci Covent Garden crime criticism death dialogue Dowden dramatic power dramatist Drury Lane Elizabethan emotional English poets entirely expression fact father Fazio feeling Forman Giacomo hand Helene Richter heroes horror Ibid imagery imagination important instance intellectual interest Italian J. A. Symonds Keats Keats's Leigh Hunt less lines literary Lucretia lyric Macready manuscript Marino Faliero Marzio Medwin mind Miss O'Neil moral murder of Cenci nature Olimpio Ollier Orsino Othello Palace passages passion Peacock Petrella play plot poems poetic poetry preface Prometheus Unbound Queen Mab Remorse Review Revolt of Islam rhythm romantic romanticists second act seems Shakespere Shelley Society Shelley's drama situation soliloquy speech style success terror theater theatrical theme third act thought tion tragedy tragic Trelawny utterance Werner whole Wordsworth writing Zapolya
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Side 79 - Even tho' dead, Does not his spirit live in all that breathe, And work for me and mine still the same ruin, Scorn, pain, despair ? Who ever yet returned To teach the laws of death's untrodden realm ? Unjust perhaps as those which drive us now, Oh, whither, whither ? LUCRETIA.
Side 5 - How comes this hair undone? Its wandering strings must be what blind me so, And yet I tied it fast.
Side 8 - There is only one part of it I am judge of — the poetry and dramatic effect, which by many spirits nowadays is considered the Mammon. A modern work, it is said, must have a purpose, which may be the God. An artist must serve Mammon; he must have "self -concentration
Side 80 - Oh, horrible ! The pavement sinks under my feet ! The walls Spin round ! I see a woman weeping there, And standing calm and motionless, whilst I Slide giddily as the world reels. — My God ! The beautiful blue heaven is flecked with blood ! The sunshine on the floor is black...
Side 13 - I have avoided with great care in writing this play the introduction of what is commonly called mere poetry, and I imagine there will scarcely be found a detached simile or a single isolated description...
Side 55 - The King, the wearer of a gilded chain That binds his soul to abjectness, the fool Whom courtiers nickname monarch, whilst a slave Even to the basest appetites...
Side 71 - I entirely agree with those modern critics who assert, that in order to move men to true sympathy we must use the familiar language of men...
Side 49 - Pah! I am choked! There creeps A clinging, black, contaminating mist About me ... 'tis substantial, heavy, thick, I cannot pluck it from me, for it glues My fingers and my limbs to one another, And eats into my sinews, and dissolves My flesh to a pollution, poisoning The subtle, pure, and inmost spirit of life!