My Last Duchess

• ’Will’t please you sit and look at her?’
• ‘E’en then would be some stooping; and I choose never to stoop.’
• ’She thanked men, - good! But thanked somehow - i know not how - …’
• ’This grew; I gave commands; then all smiles stopped together’
• • Written in Victorian period
  • Set in Renaissance period
  • Attitudes towards women changing
  • Browning explores his opinion
• • Ekphrasis - to do with a work of art
  • Jealousy, pride
  • Possession
  • Sexism/status