Zastrozzi (Annotated)

Zastrozzi (1810) is Percy Bysshe Shelley's lurid Gothic romance of pursuit, vengeance, erotic obsession, and moral extremity. Its plot turns on the implacable Zastrozzi's campaign against Verezzi, the rivalries of Matilda and Julia, and a world where passion overwhelms social and religious restraint. Written in a melodramatic, fevered prose indebted to the German Schauerroman and the English Gothi...