The Cenci

The Cenci was a verse drama by Percy Bysshe Shelley written in the summer of 1819, and inspired by a real Italian family, the Cencis (in particular, Beatrice Cenci).

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Percy Bysshe Shelley - Cenci - Beatrice Cenci

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The play was considered unperformable in its day due to its theme of incest, and was not performed in London until 1922.

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Incest - London

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It was included in the Harvard Classics as one of the most important and representative works of the western canon.

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Harvard Classics - Western canon

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Other works titled "The Cenci" include a true crime story by Alexandre Dumas and a novella by Stendhal.

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True crime - Alexandre Dumas - Novella - Stendhal

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