My Last Duchess
Chapter 1 of 11 My Last Duchess - Read by AJ
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- Running time
- 45 min
- Language
- English
- Readers
- Algy Pug, Eva Davis (d. 2025), Greg Giordano, Leonard Wilson (1930-2024), Newgatenovelist and 6 others
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NOTES:
"My Last Duchess" puts in the mouth of a Duke of Ferrara,
a typical husband and art patron of the Renaissance, a
description of his last wife, whose happy nature and universal
kindliness were a perpetual affront to his exacting
self-predominance, and whose suppression, by his command,
has made the vacancy he is now, in his interview
with the envoy for a new match, taking precaution to fill
more acceptably. (Dramatic Romances by Robert Browning)