Despite their differing genres, there are many similarities between the construction of the narrative in ‘My Last Duchess’ and the film ‘Atonement’. They both are epic narratives from historical times – in Browning’s case, the Renaissance Italian court, and in Atonement, the Second World War. Both romantic genres subverted by clever use of framing, moving between different protagonist voices or obscuring any authoritative voice through lies or other characters’ comments.