My Last Duchess (Complete Edition) (Annotated)

My Last Duchess (Complete Edition) presents one of Robert Browning's most accomplished dramatic monologues, a compact psychological portrait set in Renaissance Ferrara. Through the Duke's urbane conversation with an envoy arranging his next marriage, Browning reveals jealousy, aristocratic entitlement, and murderous possessiveness without direct confession. Its polished iambic pentameter, rhymed c...