''Luria'' is a play by

Robert Browning Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him high among the Victorian literature, Victorian poets. He was noted for irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentar ...

. It was first printed with '' A Soul's Tragedy'' as the concluding number of '' Bells and Pomegranates'' (No. VIII) in April 1846. It is a

tragedy A tragedy is a genre of drama based on human suffering and, mainly, the terrible or sorrowful events that befall a tragic hero, main character or cast of characters. Traditionally, the intention of tragedy is to invoke an accompanying catharsi ...

blank verse Blank verse is poetry written with regular metre (poetry), metrical but rhyme, unrhymed lines, usually in iambic pentameter. It has been described as "probably the most common and influential form that English poetry has taken since the 16th cen ...

.Birch, ed. 2009.

Characters

* Luria, a Moor, Commander of the Florentine Forces * Husain, a Moor, his friend * Puccio, the old Florentine Commander, now Luria's Chief Officer * Braccio, Commissary of the Republic of Florence * Jacopo (Lapo), his Secretary * Tiburzio, Commander of the Pisans * Domizia, a noble Florentine Lady ''Time, 14—''

References

Sources

* Birch, Dinah, ed. (2009)
"Luria"
In ''The Oxford Companion to English Literature''. 7th ed. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 20 October 2022. * Scudder, Horace E. (1895).

'. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co.; Cambridge: The Riverside Press. pp. 289, 299. Plays by Robert Browning 1846 plays {{1840s-play-stub