Question

In a preface, this author describes the protagonist of one of his plays as “exempt from the taints of ambition,” unlike Satan in Paradise Lost. In one of this author’s plays, a nobleman who holds a feast to celebrate the deaths of his sons in Salamanca is discovered dead in a pine tree. A fourth act this author appended to another of his plays features a masque for the protagonist’s wedding to Asia and a declaration that “this is alone (*) Life, Joy, Empire and Victory” by Demogorgon. This author's most-performed play, about the death of the tyrannical count Francesco at the hands of his daughter Beatrice, (10[1])is titled The Cenci (10[1])(”CHEN-chee”). In a closet drama by this author, Hercules frees the protagonist from being chained to a precipice. For 10 points, name this author of Prometheus (10[1])Unbound. ■END■ (0[2])

ANSWER: Percy Bysshe Shelley
<Jack Rado, British Literature>
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