The Princess: A Medley
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Cover: Mariana in the South (1897), oil on canvas by John William Waterhouse (1849-1917) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1917)
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A prince betrothed since childhood to Princess Ida finds she has founded a women's college where no man may enter, and he and two friends sneak in disguised as women. Tennyson's 'medley' in blank verse, with its songs between the parts, takes the question of women's education first in jest and then in earnest.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.