Loyola University Chicago Loyola eCommons Master's Theses Theses and Dissertations 1944 The Grotesque Artist - Robert Browning Oral Marguerite Hagerty Loyola University Chicago Recommended Citation Hagerty, Oral Marguerite, "The Grotesque Artist - Robert Browning" (1944). Master's Theses. Paper 624. http://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_theses/624 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses and Dissertations at Loyola eCommons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Master's Theses by an authorized administrator of Loyola eCommons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. Copyright © 1944 Oral Marguerite Hagerty 'f THE GROTESQUE ARTIST - ROBERT BROWNING by Oral Marguerite Hagerty A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of. the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in Loyola University ·Department of English Chicago, Illinois, June, 1944. p: The Grotesque Artist - Robert Browning ... The Grotesque Artist - Robert Browning Table of Gontents Chapter Introduction 1 I. Ori~in and Nature of the Grotesque Considered Historically and Esthetically ------ 3 II· Reasons for Browning's use of the Grotesque -- 28 III• Browning's Treatment of the Grotesque ----- 50 A. His Method - Grotesque Situation - 0har- - acter - Treatment 51 B. Types of Grotesque Used - Noble - Fanci- - ful - False Grotesque --------- 57 1. Noble Grotesque - "Caliban Upon Setebos" 58 2. Fanciful Grotesque - "The Pied Piper" - 108 3. False Grotesque - "Pacchiarotto" --- 122 IV. Artistic Possibilities and Worth of Browning's Grotesque ------ 130 Conclusion ---------- 148 BibliograPhy ------------ 151 )--( ..... THE GROTESQUE ARTIST - ROBERT BROWNING INTRODUCTION The immense vitality and wide productiveness of Robert Browning demand classification.