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Un-Victorian Tenets Of Browning In Karshish
Browning's Karshish
Robert Browning's "An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish,
the Arab Physician" is a dramatic monologue in which Karshish writes to Abib about his
experiencing the miracle of Jesus, when he raises Lazarus from the dead. "Karshish" is a dramatic
monologue containing most of the tenets of Browning.
Although "Karshish" is in the form of a letter, it is still an excellent example of a dramatic
monologue. There is a speaker, Karshish, who is not the poet. There is a silent audience, Abib
the reader of the letter. There is a mental exchange between the speaker and the
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