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Who are the targets for 'Wycherley's satire' in 'The Country Wife' and how does it reflect Restoration society?
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Explore how R.Browning's use of the Dramatic Monologue, helps to shape our understanding of the narrators in 'Porphyria's Lover' and 'My Last Duchess. Which narrator do you find the more disturbing and why?
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