The Duchess of Padua - Oscar Wilde

The Duchess of Padua is a play by Oscar Wilde: it is a melodramatic tragedy set in Padua and written in blank verse. It was written for the actress Mary Anderson in early 1883 while in Paris. She turned it down, and it eventually opened at The Broadway Theatre in New York under the title Guido Ferranti on the 26th Janury 1891, where it ran for three weeks.