In the same letter Shelley expressed hope that Eliza O’Neill, a famous actress of the day admired by Shelley for her performance in Milman’s Fazio, would play the part of Beatrice and that Edmund Kean would play the part of Cenci. In late July 1 Shelley wrote to Peacock about the play, asking him to ‘procure … its presentation at Covent Garden’ ( Letters, II, p. He reread a manuscript account of the history of the Cenci family which Mary had copied in 1818 and translated (the translation was first printed with the play in Mary’s edition of 1839). Shelley started to write this tragedy in May 1819, after seeing the supposed Guido Reni portrait of Beatrice Cenci in Rome.
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