1 Percy Bysshe Shelley.
The Cenci, ed. Roland A. Duerksen (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill
Company, Inc, 1970), II, 2, 60-61. Hereafter I will simply cite the act,
scene, and line numbers of the play. References to a page number are to the
introduction by Duerksen or Shelley's preface.
2 Rene Girard, Violence and the Sacred,
trans. Patrick Gregory (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977),
53. Hereafter cited as VS.
3 Stuart Sperry, Shelley's Major Verse: The
Narrative and Dramatic Poetry (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988),
66-7.
