Robert Browning (1812-1889, English poet and playwright) consider love, murder and jealousy in the play Macbeth and the poems, My Last Duchess and The Laboratory. When comparing these themes it is of interest to consider their historical context and setting. Macbeth was first performed in 1611 and is considered to be one of Shakespeare’s darkest and powerful tragedies. Browning’s poem The Laboratory was also based in the seventeenth century and My Last Duchess in the sixteenth century. Love as depicted
The Wylie’s Kingdom was in an uproar over King Gabriel and First Commander Cipher’s lack of response to the daily executions of men and women: those who stood quietly in the shadows, allowing others to fight their battles, never drawing a weapon nor using their powers for anything other than to support their livelihood. The one hundred and twenty-two brave souls seeking justice against those involve in Robert and Justine’s deaths, while forty-two still sits in King David’s dungeon. “I cannot keep