Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Articles 1 - 1 of 1
Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
A Theater Of Anxiety: The Irrepresentable In Shelley's "The Cenci" And In Musset's "Lorenzaccio", Remy Joseph Roussetzki
A Theater Of Anxiety: The Irrepresentable In Shelley's "The Cenci" And In Musset's "Lorenzaccio", Remy Joseph Roussetzki
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
In this dissertation I develop a comparative study of two outstanding Romantic dramas, Shelley's The Cenci (1819) and Musset's Lorenzaccio (1834), with the purpose of demonstrating that both offer a viable answer to the difficult problems facing the revival of tragedy at the beginning of the Nineteenth Century. Both Shelley and Musset took into account the tragic traditions available in their time, starting with the Greek models, to the evolution and transformation of the genre during Elizabethan and Jacobean periods in England, Neo-classicism in France and the Baroque in Germany.
I argue that these plays aggravated in particular the Historical …