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Andre del Sarto Robert Browning Sushma ma'am's lecture notes on 15 December Browning perfected the dramatic monologue: Dramatic monologue is not a soliloquy It is any form of poetry that has a speaker, an implied auditor and an occassion (usually a crisis in the speaker's life) It has one voice containing an intrinsic (implicit) appeal using rhetoric This speaker is a character of depth, psychological complexity, strain Look up: psychography Relevant: high Renaissance, Mannerism Contemporary (of the high Renaissance) (along with Andrea del Sarto) artists: Raphael, Michaelangelo -------------- Browning attempted an Italian context to a Victorian text (explained using the window metaphor - looking at a 13-14 C artist's life through Victorian elements) dynamics of a relationship of love changes after marriage POINTERS: institution of marriage, commitment, contrast between proud artist and beseeching husband Littlest things bring you down Roles in l...

SHAKESPEARE Portia: (to Shylock:) Of a strange nature is the suit you follow; Yet in such rule that the Venetian law Cannot impugn you as you do proceed. (To Antonio:) You stand within his danger, do you not? Antonio: Ay, so he says. Portia: Do you confess the bond? Antonio: I do. Portia: Then must the Jew be merciful. Shylock: On what compulsion must I? Tell me that. Portia: The quality of mercy is not strained; Not forced – comes from within It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Shown as a “higher’ quality, coming from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: Heaven, blest = religious references It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. Twice – he who is merciful, and the one shown mercy ‘Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes Strongest quality in the greatest of men The throned monarch better than his crown; Becomes=suits (shobha deta hai) mercy suits monarch better than crown His scepter shows the force o...