Do you not hear, There is artillery in the Heaven to-night. GUIDO Murder, call no more, For thou shalt eat thy fill. Come, it is almost morning. But you had loved me very faithfully. We waste time, It will be morning soon; are you resolved You will not kill the Duke? [wresting knife from her] Give it to me, I say. O Guido, Guido, will you not kiss me once? MORANZONE Father, I know not if a human voice Can pierce the iron gateway of the dead, Or if the dead are set in ignorance Of what we do, or do not, for their sakes. Lambert, Edward. ) ”…the next generation is looking to buy their vegetables at a farmers' market, not a supermarket. TIME: The latter half of the Sixteenth Century. Yet the wife loves him! First, I would have you know my well-laid plans; Listen: I have set horses at the gate Which leads to Parma: when you have done your business We will ride hence, and by to-morrow night - Better perhaps That you had done so! It has been rarely revived or studied.The Duchess of Padua tells the story of a young man named Guido who was left in the charge of a man he calls his uncle as a baby. Ay, waiting for your coming. All the titles I've always wanted to read and for free - this is my kind of kindle heaven. MORANZONE There is a storm Will break upon this house before the morning, So horrible, that the white moon already Turns grey and sick with terror, the low wind Goes moaning round the house, and the high stars Run madly through the vaulted firmament, As though the night wept tears of liquid fire For what the day shall look upon. Fans of Wilde will delight in this fine play of his. Guido! I would that I could wake him! Had it been so, Love would have stayed your hand. [holding up knife] I will not kiss you Until the blood grows dry upon this knife, [Wildly] Back to your dead! It is a five-act melodramatic tragedy set in Padua and written in blank verse. Ah! Love me a little: in my girlish life I have been starved for love, and kindliness Has passed me by. Better for me I had not seen your face. Men do not know what women do for love. You said not that; it is my senses mock me; Or else this midnight air o'ercharged with storm Alters your message in the giving it. It grows late. GUIDO It was, I think, for love's sake that Lord Christ, Who was indeed himself incarnate Love, Bade every man forgive his enemy. Let me find mercy when I go at night And do foul murder. When he arrives in Padua he is convinced by a man named Moranzone to abandon his only friend, Ascanio, in order to dedicate himself to revenging his father’s death at the hands of Simone Gesso, the Duke of Padua. MORANZONE [Rises.] Let us go hence: Is not the barrier broken down between us? GUIDO I hardly know What happened, but a steaming mist of blood Rose up between us two. This has everything. GUIDO Shakespearean archetypes stand behind the action - especially Lady Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet - but the smoothness of the verse means Wilde's characters never burn with the knotty tormented passion of their dramatic forebears. The Duchess of Padua was intended as a vehicle for American actress Mary Anderson, indeed was probably commissioned by her. You for whose sake this hand has murdered life, You for whose sake my soul has wrecked itself Beyond all hope of pardon. GUIDO You will not leave me as you did before? Come down, come out! I have seen to that. This is the punishment God sets on sin. And your white Duchess, What will she do to thank you? I only heard The dripping of the blood upon the floor. MORANZONE Let as not talk of this! Why, what is life? There is yet time to escape. The Duchess of Padua - random observations. O God! Nay, you heard rightly; I'll not kill this man. It is a five-act melodramatic tragedy set in Padua and written in blank verse. He was asleep; Come closer, love, and I will tell you all. When a man loves a woman, then he knows God's secret, and the secret of the world. MORANZONE No! MORANZONE The Duchess of Padua (1883) is a five-act melodramatic tragedy by Oscar Wilde. MORANZONE © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. DUCHESS GUIDO I would to God that I could wake the dead, Put vision in the glazed eves, and give The tongue its natural utterance, and bid The heart to beat again: that cannot be: For what is done, is done: and what is dead Is dead for ever: the fire cannot warm him: The winter cannot hurt him with its snows; Something has gone from him; if you call him now, He will not answer; if you mock him now, He will not laugh; and if you stab him now He will not bleed. previous: ACT II. GUIDO: So I can live; life … What of thine oath, thou traitor, what of thine oath? Oscar Wilde is one of the great writers of all time without doubt. The duchess of Padua is a play broken into five acts. Some day, Lord Moranzone, You will understand my vengeance. leads up to a door with a portiere of crimson velvet, with the Duke's arms embroidered in gold on it: on the lowest step of the staircase a figure draped in black is sitting: the hall is lit by an iron cresset filled with burning tow: thunder and lightning outside: the time is night. Basically, it's Victorian melodrama. 35641 The Duchess of Padua 1883 Oscar Wilde. Tableau.] Quick, let your soul go chambering in my heart, It will but find its master's image there. MORANZONE by Oscar Wilde. DUCHESS [A groan from the DUKE'S chamber again.] Buckles & company edition, in English And she who wrought it - Oh! GUIDO This is fantastic. And then he groaned, And then he groaned no more! Love is the sacrament of life; it sets Virtue where virtue was not; cleanses men Of all the vile pollutions of this world; It is the fire which purges gold from dross, It is the fan which winnows wheat from chaff, It is the spring which in some wintry soil Makes innocence to blossom like a rose. I read this book as I wanted to research modern tragedies. I do not care. MORANZONE Now then I know you have not loved at all. And yet I feel a presence in the air, There is a shadow standing at my side, And ghostly kisses seem to touch my lips, And leave them holier. [After a pause approaches him timidly.] Listen, Lord Moranzone, I am resolved not to kill this man. and may you find More mercy than you showed to me to-night! I cannot speak at all. MORANZONE Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 15, 2013. Turn to the next chapter: ACT IV. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. I had resolved to kill myself to-night. I did it all for you: have you forgotten? GUIDO Guido is appalled at the sin committed on his behalf and rejects Beatrice, claiming that their love has been soiled. More thunder.] The barrier was murder, and your hand Has builded it so high it shuts out heaven, It shuts out God. MORANZONE MORANZONE No, you mistook: Sin was the barrier, you have raised it up; Crime was the barrier, you have set it there. Away, away, And come not back till you have waked your dead. Nay, I know you now; Get hence, I say, out of my sight. GUIDO [in amazed wonder] I did it all for you. [Looks out at the city.] You can also read the full text online using our ereader. DUCHESS You said that with that dagger in your belt You would avenge your father's bloody murder; Did you not say that? Genre Categories. Guido, the first kindly words I ever heard since I had come from France Were from your lips: well, well, that is no matter. MORANZONE GUIDO DUCHESS DUCHESS: Oh, thank God for that! Murder did you say? Wilde himself described the play to Anderson: "I have no hesitation in saying that it is the masterpiece of all my literary work, the chef d'oeuvre of my youth." 'The Duchess of Padua' is a five-act play by Oscar Wilde which was originally written for actress Mary Anderson in 1883. It later appeared in its first publication in German in 1904. I dare not look at you: You come to me with too pronounced a favour; Get to your tirewomen. GUIDO Father, it is thy bidding that I do, Thy bidding, and the bidding of my love Which teaches me to know thee as thou art. More wretched, were thy son a murderer. I do not think so, There is better knowledge in the other world; Vengeance is God's, let God himself revenge. DUCHESS SCENE revenge: The right revenge my father's son should take. Surely my ears are traitors, speak again: It cannot be but age has dulled my powers, I am an old man now: what did you say? "William Winter reviewed the first production in The New York Tribune on 27 January 1891:"The new play is deftly constructed in five short acts, and is written in a strain of blank verse that is always melodious, often eloquent, and sometimes freighted with fanciful figures of rare beauty. [looking away from him] I did not think to see you, but am glad, That you may know the thing I mean to do. GUIDO Father, I think thou knowest my resolve, And with this nobler vengeance art content. It was not yet time; Now it is time, and, like some green-faced girl, Thou pratest of forgiveness. What is that? Mary Anderson, however, was less enthusiastic: "The play in its present form, I fear, would no more please the public of today than would 'Venus Preserved' or 'Lucretia Borgia'. What of thy murdered father? What bloody devil tempted thee to this! I pray you let me see your face no more. Romance, revenge, mystery, suspense and what not. Beatrice, I say, come back. MORANZONE GUIDO GUIDO [after some hesitation] You have sworn an oath, see that you keep that oath. Taddeo Bardi, } Murder is hungry, and still cries for more, And Death, his brother, is not satisfied, But walks the house, and will not go away, Unless he has a comrade! There is no love where there is any guilt. Thank you public domain! Composition Year. DUCHESS [going up the stairs] Why, then I will be gone! I see when men love women They give them but a little of their lives, But women when they love give everything; I see that, Guido, now. GuiDO.Ifearyouareright.Ha! After she turned it down, it was abandoned until its first performance at the Broadway Theatre in New York under the title Guido Ferranti on 26 January 1891, where it ran for three weeks. [Passes across the stage to foot of staircase.] GUIDO [GUIDO recoils: she seizes his hands as she kneels.] DUCHESS Sure it is the guilty, Who, being very wretched, need love most. The Duchess of Padua is a play by Oscar Wilde. [pacing up and down] O God, How I have loved this man! O God, your very hands are wet with blood! MORANZONE We cannot meet again. Something went wrong. For those of you who aren't familiar with the term: blank verse is poetry written with regular metrical but unrhymed lines, almost always in iambic pentameter. When he is dead, then you can talk to me Of noble vengeances. GUIDO Thou art God's minister of vengeance. MORANZONE And then? I always hear, From the dim confines of some sepulchre, A voice that cries for vengeance. There is many a woman here in Padua, Some workman's wife, or ruder artisan's, Whose husband spends the wages of the week In a coarse revel, or a tavern brawl, And reeling home late on the Saturday night, Finds his wife sitting by a fireless hearth, Trying to hush the child who cries for hunger, And then sets to and beats his wife because The child is hungry, and the fire black. I will return within a moment's space, But first I must repair to the Duke's chamber, And leave this letter and this dagger there, That when he wakes - GUIDO Please try again. Ay, there it is! As pure I think as any gentle girl Who now would turn in horror from my hands [Stands up.] Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. I will not kill this man. Neither of can afford failure now, and your Duchess in my hands would not succeed, as the part does not fit me. The Duchess of Padua (Author: Oscar Wilde) ACT ONE SCENE: The Market Place of Padua at noon. Enough, enough. Never, boy. Tarry here for me. Nor the white stars so pure. … That thou hast killed thy husband, that is nothing Hell was already gaping for his soul But thou hast murdered Love, and in its place Hast set a horrible and bloodstained thing, Whose very breath breeds pestilence and plague, And strangles Love. GUIDO However, Guido soon finds that he has fallen in love with the duke’s wife, the duchess ACT II. I am resolved. Beatrice! When he wakes, And sees this letter, and the dagger with it, Will he not have some loathing for his life, Repent, perchance, and lead a better life, Or will he mock because a young man spared His natural enemy? Whose music seems to linger in my ears, Swore that you loved me, and I trusted you. The past is a bad dream, we will forget it: Before us lies the future: shall we not have Sweet days of love beneath our vines and laugh? Alas, I will not see her face again. GUIDO Farewell! [throws herself on her knees] Then slay me now! Have I not wrecked my soul for your dear sake, Here and hereafter? Tarry, Death, For I will give thee a most faithful lackey To travel with thee! ACT IV. who art thou That sittest on the stair, like unto Death Waiting a guilty soul? No! GUIDO Farewell! O wretched father, lying unavenged. LibriVox recording of The Duchess of Padua, by Oscar Wilde. What, is he dead? I highly recommend it. The Duchess of Padua by Oscar Wilde, 1906, F.M. None, love, nor shall be. I am resolved not to keep that oath. So I think That it is woman's mission by their love To save the souls of men: and loving her, My Lady, my white Beatrice, I begin To see a nobler and a holier vengeance In letting this man live, than doth reside In bloody deeds o' night, stabs in the dark, And young hands clutching at a palsied throat. No, there is nothing. I do not think you understand me, Guido: It was for your sake that I wrought this deed Whose horror now chills my young blood to ice, For your sake only. There are 0 reviews and 0 ratings from Japan, Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. Thy beauty sets my boyish blood aflame, And, when my reverent lips touch thy white hand, Each little nerve with such wild Why are you here, If not to kill him, then? Maffio Petrucci, } Jeppo Vitellozzo, } Gentlemen of the Duke's Household. You came, and in the passion of your eyes I read love's meaning; everything you said Touched my dumb soul to music, so I loved you. Looks like love has always been the loser from ages. Anderson turned it down. [A flash of lightning followed by a peal of thunder.] GUIDO This is a different work of Oscar from what he has usually written and is thus very very exciting. It is less a tragedy, however, than a melodrama...the radical defect of the work is insincerity. You said there was a barrier between us; That barrier lies now i' the upper chamber Upset, overthrown, beaten, and battered down, And will not part us ever. Ah! What would you more? The Duchess of Padua. Andreas Pollajuolo, Cardinal of Padua. [in horror] Oh! 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