Percy Bysshe Shelley

English Romantic poet and radical writer, author of works including 'Ozymandias', 'Ode to the West Wind', and 'Prometheus Unbound'; noted for his lyrical style and political and philosophical radicalism.

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  1. 1. The Cenci

    A Tragedy in Five Acts

    A bleak verse drama set in Renaissance Italy that follows a noble family ruined by the brutal tyranny of its patriarch and the desperate measures his victims take; his daughter, driven by abuse and humiliation, becomes involved in a plot to end his reign of cruelty, and the murder and its aftermath expose moral ambiguity, political corruption, religious hypocrisy, and the tragic consequences of attempting to seek justice through violence, culminating in arrest, trial, and execution that elicit both sympathy and horror.

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