Tennyson's 'Mariana' was inspired by a character and a line from which Shakespearean play?
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Correct answer: Measure for Measure
The poem takes its epigraph from 'Measure for Measure' ('Mariana in the moated grange'). It focuses on the psychological state of a woman waiting in isolation for a lover who never arrives.
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