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    "My Last Duchess" is a poem by Robert Browning, frequently anthologised as an example of the dramatic monologue. It first appeared in 1842 in Browning's...
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    English poet Robert Browning to create a dramatic monologue in verse "My Last Duchess" (1842). Born in Florence on 14 February 1545, Lucrezia was the fifth...
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    According to Scenario magazine, Coppola had written an early script called My Last Duchess, loosely inspired by the Robert Browning poem of the same name. Coppola...
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    Victoria which has sold to 146 countries. She has written four novels: My Last Duchess or The American Heiress, The Fortune Hunter, Victoria, and “Diva”;...
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    Roland to the Dark Tower Came, Fra Lippo Lippi, Andrea Del Sarto, and My Last Duchess. His most popular poems include Porphyria's Lover, How They Brought...
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  • particularly telling set of circumstances. In both "Porphyria's Lover" and "My Last Duchess", Browning uses this mode of exposition to describe a man who responds...
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  • Catherine Deshayes Monvoisin Giovanna Bonanno Angel Makers of Nagyrév My Last Duchess, a poem by Robert Browning Philip Wexler, Toxicology in the Middle...
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  • studies with her boyfriend Bill. In particular, they analyze the poem My Last Duchess by Robert Browning. It is a monologue by the Duke of Ferrara that implies...
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  • William Shakespeare: Sonnet 130 - "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" Robert Browning: "My Last Duchess" Robert Browning: "The Laboratory" Alfred...
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    When Alfonso's grandson Alfonso II d'Este—Robert Browning's duke of "My Last Duchess"—produced no male heir, the main d'Este line died out. A grandson of...
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  • contains several of the poet's other best-known pieces, including My Last Duchess, Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister, Porphyria's Lover, and Johannes...
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  • Robert Browning produced his most famous work in this form. While My Last Duchess is the most famous of his monologues, the form dominated his writing...
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    attributed to Agnolo Bronzino, and from reading Robert Browning's poem, "My Last Duchess", in which Lucrezia makes a brief, silent and unnamed appearance. The...
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  • Symphony Orchestra's SoundHub programme, and commissioned her piece My Last Duchess, based on the poem by Robert Browning. That year, she was also offered...
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    treasure. Alfonso II is the duke upon whom Robert Browning based his poem My Last Duchess, and is a major character in the Maggie O'Farrell novel The Marriage...
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    Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (Russian: Марія Александровна; 17 October [O.S. 5 October] 1853 – 24 October 1920) was the fifth child and...
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    ambiguity: 'last' can mean 'most recent' as well as 'ultimate'. The speaker in Browning's My Last Duchess is already planning to marry his next duchess ... Still...
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    Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia (Tatiana Nikolaevna Romanova; Russian: Великая Княжна Татьяна Николаевна; 10 June [O.S. 29 May] 1897– 17 July...
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    (Compare the more obvious use of this approach in Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess".) Culler himself views "Ulysses" as a dialectic in which the speaker...
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  • Deborah Vivien Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, DCVO (born Deborah Vivien Freeman-Mitford and latterly Deborah, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire; 31 March...
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  • Bobolink Maud Bodkin The Brothers Karamazov Robert Browning, including "My Last Duchess" and Pippa Passes (inspired in a wood near Dulwich) Cedar, including...
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  • effect, as Robert Browning does in the first line of "My Last Duchess": That's my last Duchess painted on the wall. The opening spondees, which throw...
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    Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (born Lady Alice Christabel Montagu Douglas Scott; 25 December 1901 – 29 October 2004) was a member of the British...
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    Sarah, Duchess of York (born Sarah Margaret Ferguson; 15 October 1959), also known by the nickname Fergie, is a British author, philanthropist, television...
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  • The Man Who Would Be King, Oh Dad Poor Dad, Assault on the Queen, My Last Duchess and Where the Tiger Sleeps. However both Taylor and Burton dropped...
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    ISBN 9780993354069. The Duchess of Cornwall (11 September 2014). "My brother's enduring love affair". The Times. HRH The Duchess of Cornwall; Penny Mountbatten;...
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    Show, Mrs Thursday, The Prisoner, Call My Bluff and The Golden Shot. Film appearances include My Last Duchess, San Ferry Ann, The Devil's Daffodil and...
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    Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (née Spencer; /dʒɔːrˈdʒeɪnə/ jor-JAY-nə; 7 June 1757 – 30 March 1806), was an English aristocrat, socialite...
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    subtitle, "Verses Written under a Picture"; and Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess", which although a dramatic monologue, includes some description by...
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  • ISBN 978-0062692474. Say No to the Duke. Avon. June 2019. ISBN 978-0062877826. My Last Duchess. Avon. October 2020. ISBN 9780063036345 Wilde Child. Avon. March 2021...
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