English language
Published May 18, 1912 by Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press.
The ring and the book.
With an introduction by Edward Dowden, and four facsimiles.
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Browning's dramatic poem The Ring and the Book narrates the trial of a Roman for the death of his wife and her parents. He suspected his wife of having an affair with a cleric. The man appeals his sentence, though unsuccessfully. The poem is narrated by many different voices, each adding their version of events to the whole in a series of monologues.