A Blot in the 'Scutcheon

A Blot in the 'Scutcheon is an English drama by Robert Browning, an English poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramatic monologue made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. 

Robert Browning stands, in respect to his origin and his career, in marked contrast to the two aristocratic poets beside whose dramas his "Blot in the 'Scutcheon" is here printed. His father was a bank clerk and a dissenter at a time when dissent meant exclusion from Society; the poet went neither to one of the great public schools nor to Oxford or Cambridge; and no breath of scandal touched his name