Word: shelley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shelley Rogers, a Pentagon spokesperson, said Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney had attended a Pentagon briefing on the confrontation...
Such a play is Percy Bysshe Shelley's 1886 drama, The Cenci, a work which proves the point that romantic poetry looks a lot better on the page than on the stage...
...Percy Bysshe Shelley...
...Cenci is Shelley's dramatization of the 16th century legend of Count Cenci, an evil old man who, as Percy Bysshe Shelley (Matt Schuerman) tells the audience at the opening of Nick Moschovakis' production, "having spent his life in debauchery and wickedness, conceived at length an implacable hatred towards his children...
Mona Karim, who plays Cenci's daughter, Beatrice, falls all too often into this trap. While Shelley's play is intended to be a tragedy, Karim fails to convey believable anger in her accusations. There is so little emotion in her portrayal of Beatrice that when she reveals the incest forced upon her by her father, one may be uncertain of exactly what has happened to her. Were it not for Shelley's plot summary in the opening scene, the main tension of the play might go undiscovered...