The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical ProseSelection includes The Portrait of Mr W.H., Wilde's defence of Dorian Gray, reviews, and the writings from 'Intentions' (1891): 'The Decay of Lying, 'Pen, Pencil, Poison', and 'The Critic as Artist'. |
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... Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, all performed on the West End stage between 1892 and 1895. Success, however, was short-lived. In 1891 Wilde had met and.
... Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, all performed on the West End stage between 1892 and 1895. Success, however, was short-lived. In 1891 Wilde had met and.
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... stage and successfully translated into films. His tragic plunge from the height of success to the depths of social ruin has been depicted in everything from lavishly illustrated coffee-table books to an acclaimed twentieth-century ...
... stage and successfully translated into films. His tragic plunge from the height of success to the depths of social ruin has been depicted in everything from lavishly illustrated coffee-table books to an acclaimed twentieth-century ...
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... stage costume and the transmigration of souls. In short, instead of hearing Wilde as a voice of modern or postmodernist ideas, the reader will find him to be absorbed in issues we now tend to think of as remote from contemporary ...
... stage costume and the transmigration of souls. In short, instead of hearing Wilde as a voice of modern or postmodernist ideas, the reader will find him to be absorbed in issues we now tend to think of as remote from contemporary ...
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... stage in some career of self-culture. To read the Agamemnon was, for Wilde, to enter and apprehend the work as a world, an organizing structure within which one's own experience became intelligible. Wilde's encounter with Aeschylus must ...
... stage in some career of self-culture. To read the Agamemnon was, for Wilde, to enter and apprehend the work as a world, an organizing structure within which one's own experience became intelligible. Wilde's encounter with Aeschylus must ...
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... stage-play by those who had loved him. In its rich affluence of imagery this story is like a picture by Mantegna,6 and indeed Mantegna might have suggested the description of the pageant in which Denys rides upon a gaily-painted chariot ...
... stage-play by those who had loved him. In its rich affluence of imagery this story is like a picture by Mantegna,6 and indeed Mantegna might have suggested the description of the pageant in which Denys rides upon a gaily-painted chariot ...
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