Andrea del Sarto by Robert Browning
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...