Don't know if this is up here yet, but it might be useful
http://www.dundee.ac.uk/english/wics/shelley/framconc.htm
warning--no prose is included
And another, called the "Hyper-Concordance"
http://victorian.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/concordance/shelley/
which deals only with: Alastor, Julian and Maddalo, Prom. Unbound, and The Cenci
And here is a journal Article entitled "A Volcano's Voice in Shelley", which is about his symbolism-how his words have worlds of esoteric meaning that can only be accessed by looking at all of Shelley's work. Cool.
http://www.jstor.org/view/00138304/di990094/99p01557/0
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So, does anyone else find it strange that The Cenci is sort-of like a meta-aware Shakespeare play? Even Ophelia's character is so fleshed out, she's meta-aware of her own virtue and loses it. It's kind-of surreal... bizarre even.
"What do you do with the play, The Cenci, after you remove all judgments made via justice (retribution, repentance, etc.)?"
The only choice left to us is to re-enter the landscape/abyss and play/live/die/suffer/rejoice as the characters in the Cenci because we have the same nature.
One cannot truly go against one’s nature--and even if we could, Love exists in this abyss. Cenci’s obsessive, incestuous, dominatrix relationship with Beatrice, though depicted as a corrupted, disgusting situation (in society), when called to look at this removed— we must recognize that it can be a form of affection.
Remove Beatrice’s disgust of it; remove Cenci’s masochism (there’s no accounting for taste.) And what’s left is love, right? And even if it’s not, that thing we call 'Love' can only be accessed in this abyssal plane because Reason doesn’t reside here. Love is irrational, a deamon.
So indulgence and participation in this plane and situation and delusion of religion and passion and Belief and justice is the only place to experience Love. To love, be loved, and to even see, a Beloved.
And given affections and connections with humans are essential to a human being's continued existence, we have no choice but to continue existing this way. Empathy is essential to existence. We cannot continue as humans to exist without considering it.
....Does anyone else have an answer to this question? and/or have anything else to say about this discussion I am having with myself and the text?
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