ABSTRACT
Shelley, The Cenci (1819); Theatrical Inquisitor, xvi (April 1820), 205–218. The reviewer “B.”, not prejudiced against Shelley but exhibiting a genuine interest in the theater, gives Shelley’s drama one of its best contemporary reviews. It is especially strong for its summary of the dramatic high points of the play and in the reviewer’s awareness that it is silly to say that the horror of the drama was carried to excess, because “horror was the artist’s aim” (p. 211).
