The Duchess of Padua

The Duchess of Padua is a five-act tragedy written in blank verse by Oscar Wilde. Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. A young man named Guido is left in the charge of a man he calls his uncle as a baby. Guido gets a notice to meet a man in Padua regarding something about his parentage. When he arrives in Padua he is convinced by a man called Moranzone to abandon his only friend, Ascanio, in order to dedicate himself to revenging his father's death.