Pippa Passes by Robert Browning
Pippa, a silk-worker in Asolo, spends her sole annual holiday walking and singing, imagining herself in the lives of people she considers happy. Her songs rouse Sebald's remorse for murdering Ottima's husband, lead Jules to abandon revenge and embrace Phene after discovering the deception behind their marriage, and renew Luigi's resolve to leave for Vienna to kill its ruler. When an intendant reveals Pippa's concealed inheritance and a scheme to lure her into prostitution, Monsignor orders him bound; Pippa returns home wondering whether she can affect anyone's life.
By Robert Browning · Genre: Drama, Dramatic Poetry · 5 chapters · 21,814 words
First lines
A Drama
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- Work type: Play
- Author: Robert Browning
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Drama, Dramatic Poetry
- Length: 21,814 words
- Structure: 5 chapters, 241 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Easy (6th Grade)
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Genres
- Drama — Named speakers and stage directions present successive encounters involving murder, a fraudulent courtship, an assassination plan and a threatened heiress.
- Dramatic Poetry — Verse speeches and Pippa's passing songs carry the action, with prose conversations between the principal scenes.
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silk workers · New Year's Day · murder · remorse · marriage deception · political assassination · inheritance · verse drama