English Literature / Unit 14 ENL 1317 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Ring and the Book
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The idea
The Ring and the Book, published in eighteen sixty-eight and sixty-nine, retells a murder trial in Rome in sixteen ninety-eight. Ten of its twelve books are dramatic monologues by different people in the case, each giving a different account of the same events.
In practice
One murder, many monologues.
Where people slip
The form shows truth as relative.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Unlocks
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