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The Duchess of Padua is a play by Oscar Wilde: it is a melodramatic tragedy set in Padua and written in blank verse. It was written for the actress Mary Anderson in early 1883 while in Paris. She turned it down, and it eventually opened at The Broadway Theatre in New York under the title Guido Ferranti on the 26th Janury 1891, where it ran for three weeks.
[edit] Dramatis Personae
- Simone Grosso, Duke of Padua
- Beatrice, his wife
- Andreas Pollajuolo, Cardinal of Padua
- Maffio Petrucci, Gentleman of the Duke's Household
- Jeppo Vitellozzo, Gentleman of the Duke's Household
- Taddeo Bardi, Gentleman of the Duke's Household
- Guido Ferranti, a young man
- Ascanio Cristofano, his Friend
- Count Morazone, an Old Man
- Bernardo Calvacanti, Lord Justice of Padua
- Hugo, the Headsman
- Lucy, a Tire Woman
- Servants, Citizens, Soldiers, Monks and Falconers
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