PPT-My Last Duchess

By Robert Browning Brief Biography Thats my last duchess painted on the wall looking as if she was still alive I call that piece a wonder now Fra pandolfs hands worked busily a day and there she stands. 032014 12042014 1159 PM 14042014 1159 PM 14042014 within Banking Hours 14042014 1159 PM CENTRAL RAL RECRUITMENT AGENCY HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH yMPIDYMENT NOTICE No 1W CRACHD2014 Dated21032014 1 The Central Recruitment Agency on In 1846 he married Elizabeth Barrett and shared with her one of the worlds most celebrated romances My Last Duchess 1842 Brownings bestknown monologue it is spoken by Alfonso II Duke of FerraraOpening lines Thats my last Duchess painted on the wall by Robert Browning. Duchess. When you hear the word ‘duchess’, what do you think of? What do you expect?. Last Hands Look Glad Painted Stands Glance Name She Design Passion Cherries Alive Pictured You White Wonder Sit Husband Blush Cheek Wrist Paint Gift Throat Faint Joy Disgusts Commands Object My Bronze Stooping Rise Smiled. The Duchess of . Malfi. The purpose of . this character. “. Cariola. ” . meaning trundle-bed in Italian, a play on the word . carriolo. . A pair of beds, one tucking in under the other. Could signify how close she is to Duchess – physically sleeping in her bedchambers, knowing all her secrets, but does not share her rank or authority (thus sleeping literally lower than her). When can cheap talk be believed?. We have discussed costly signaling models like educational signaling.. In these models, a signal of one’s type is credible if the cost of a signal differs between types and it doesn’t pay to send a false signal.. By Robert Browning. Robert Browning. Married Elizabeth Barrett Browning, also a famous poet. Wrote plays as well as poetry. Critics claimed his poetry was too difficult to read. “Perfected” the dramatic monologue. The Book of the Duchess Geoffrey Chaucer I wonder and wonder, by the light of the moon, how I stay alive, for I can hardly sleep at all, day or night. I have so many idle thoughts, all for lack of sle Act III . scene ii lines 1- 140. A scene which begins with husband and wife romance – cosy,. playful, with sexual undertones but a sense of intimacy not seen. before.. This is the “private” life of the couple – unseen by all except Cariola and the invisible. Act III scene v . The question and answer structure continues but now the tone is one of bewilderment and trauma…. The haven is no longer one – “great men’s breath – ironically churchmen, who should uphold Christ’s message of forgiveness and love, have destroyed the Duchess’s happiness, family, court and followers’ lives.. First the Duchess’s sense of sight was attacked – now it is her hearing… . To drive her from her wits although she states the opposite – silence will make her think too much on the past and the dead.. An explication by . Anh. -Thu Pham . a. nd Amy Chen. Time Period and Style: Victorian. This poem is composed as a dramatic monologue, a format that Browning is best known for. . The aforementioned Duke of this poem is based on the real Duke of Ferrara, Italy, Alfonso II, whose first wife died just three years . Malfi. . (Plot and . Characterisation. ). 1.1. ◦ Antonio and . Delio. provide social commentary on court. ◦ . Bosola. enters, angry at the Cardinal. ◦ Ferdinand commissions. . Bosola. to spy on the Duchess after convincing her to hire him. By Robert Browning. Reading of My Last Duchess. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xIVg0qwTj4. About Browning. Robert Browning was an English poet and playwright. He wrote during the Victorian period. His mastery of dramatic monologues made him one of the greatest poets of his time. Read , understand and respond to texts. Students should be able to: maintain a critical style and develop an informed personal response use textual references, including quotations, to support and illustrate interpretations.