summary of The Cenci -act II & III - tragedy of PB Shelly

                                                                   The  Cenci

                                        



Act II :

     Count Cenci torments Beatrice and her stepmother Lucretia, and announces his plan to imprison them in his castle in Petrella.  A servant returns Beatrice's petition to the Pope unopened.  Beatrice and Lucretia despair over the last hope of salvation from the Count.  

    Orsino encourages Cenci's son, Giacomo, upset over Cenci's appropriation of Giacomo's wife's dowry to murder Cenci.

                                                                Act III :

     Beatrice reveals to Lucretia that the Count has committed an unnameable ac against her and expression contamnation, implying Cenci's incestous rape of his daughter.

     Orsino and Lucretia agree with Beatrice's suggest that the count must be murdered.

     After the first attempt at parricide fails because Cenci arrives early Orsino conspires with Beatrice, Lucretia and Giacomo in a second assasination plot.

     Orsino proposes that two of Cenci, ill-treated servants, Marzio and Olimpio, carry out the murder.

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