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The short story "My Last Girlfriend" by Robert Barnard is a take-off on "My Last Duchess" with a new twist. [9] Science fiction author Eric Flint uses portions of "My Last Duchess" in his book 1634: The Galileo Affair (2004). [10] Canadian author Margaret Atwood's short story "My Last Duchess" appears in her short story anthology Moral Disorder ...
Lucrezia de' Medici (14 February 1545 – 21 April 1561) was a member of the House of Medici and by marriage Duchess consort of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio from 1558 to 1561. Married to the intended husband of her elder sister Maria, who died young, her marriage was short and unhappy. The Duchess died of pulmonary tuberculosis, but almost ...
Jason Goodwin (half-brother) Robert Traill (great-great-great-grandfather) Daisy Georgia Goodwin (born 19 December 1961) is an English screenwriter, TV producer and novelist. She is the creator of the ITV/ PBS show Victoria which has sold to 146 countries. She has written four novels: My Last Duchess or The American Heiress, The Fortune Hunter ...
Taming a Sea-Horse is the 13th Spenser novel by Robert B. Parker.. The title is from the Robert Browning poem "My Last Duchess."The book's epigraph is of the poem's closing lines: "Nay, we'll go / Together down, sir: / Notice Neptune, though, /Taming a sea-horse thought a rarity, / Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me!"
Porphyria's Lover. " Porphyria's Lover " is a poem by Robert Browning which was first published as "Porphyria" in the January 1836 issue of Monthly Repository. [1] Browning later republished it in Dramatic Lyrics (1842) paired with "Johannes Agricola in Meditation" under the title "Madhouse Cells". The poem did not receive its definitive title ...
Dramatic Lyrics. Dramatic Lyrics is a collection of English poems by Robert Browning, first published in 1842 as the third volume in a series of self-published books entitled Bells and Pomegranates. It is most famous as the first appearance of Browning's poem The Pied Piper of Hamelin, but also contains several of the poet's other best-known ...
Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him high among the Victorian poets. He was noted for irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings and challenging vocabulary and syntax. His early long poems Pauline (1833) and Paracelsus (1835) were ...
My Last Duchess: Robert Browning dramatised by Martyn Wade: Roger Allam, Emily Mortimer, Tim McInnerny and Robert Hands: Inspired by a fresco portrait of the Italian Duke of Este's first wife, who died young in suspicious circumstances, Browning wrote his poetic masterpiece My Last Duchess. This dramatisation solves the mystery posed by the poem.