Play summary act wise summary -act IV & V - The Cenci

                                                          The Cenci







ACT IV:   

          The scene shifts to the Petrella Castle in the Apulian Apennies, Olimpio ad Mario enter Cenci's bed chamber to murder him, but hesitate to kill the sleeping Count and return to the conspirators with the deed undone.  

          Threatening to kill Cenci herself, Beatrice shames the servants in to action.  Olimpio and Marzio strangle the Count and throw his body of the room off the balcony, where it is entangled in a pine.  

          Shortly thereafter, Savella, a papal legate, arrives with a murder charge and execution order against Cenci.  Upon finding the Count's dead body, the legate arrests the conspirators, with the exception of Orsino who escapes in disguise.

ACT V:

              The suspects are taken for murder in Rome.  Marzio is tortured and confesses to the murder, implicating Cenci's family members. 

              Despite learning that Lucretia and Giacomo have also confessed Beatrice refuses to do so steadfastly insisting on her innocence.

              At the trial, all of the conspirators are found guilty and sentenced to death. Bernardo, another of Cenci's sons, attempts a futile last-minute  appeal to the Pope to have mercy on his family.  The Pope is reported to have declared " They must die".

              The play concludes with Beatrice walking stoically to her execution for murder.  Her final words are, " We are quite ready,  Well, 'tis very well"

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