Beatrice Chancy

Type

Book

Authors

George Elliott Clarke

ISBN 10

1896095941

ISBN 13

9781896095943

Tags

United States, Family Saga, Biographical, Regional & Cultural

Description

The legend of Beatrice Cenci has intrigued writers such as Antonin Artaud, Stendhal, Mary Shelley, Alexandre Dumas, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Browning, and Kathy Acker. In Beatrice Chancy, a verse play set in Nova Scotia in 1819, Clarke boldly reimagines Beatrice as the daughter of a white master and a black slave. - from Amzon

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