Titlebook: Oscar Wilde; Katharine Worth Textbook 1983Latest edition Katharine Worth 1983 Arthur Miller.Beckett.George Bernard Shaw.Great Britain.Haro

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A Modern Perspective on Wilde as Man of Theatre,appeared. W. H. Auden praised . as the ‘only pure verbal opera in English’ but failed to grasp the theatrical force of the other plays, seeing only the split between the wit and the melodrama, not the provocative counter-pointing of one with the other.

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,A Revolutionary Start: ‘Vera or The Nihilists’,opefully to actresses whom he admired copies of his ‘play on modern Russia’ which had just been privately printed at his own expense. To the American actress, Clara Morris, whom he hoped to interest in the role of Vera, he added that he had not been able to get permission for performance in London ‘

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,’salomé’,irst performance of the play in Paris (in 1896, when Wilde was in prison.). Wilde was given a sympathetic interview by the . in which he stressed his detachment from the philistine race: ‘I am not English; I’m Irish — which is quite another thing.’

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,‘The Importance of Being Earnest’,the two actors, who owed so much to Wilde, the courage of Charles Wyndham who refused to receive . at his theatre, the Criterion (where it had been scheduled to move), unless Wilde’s name were restored to the bills. And this was done.

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,‘The Duchess of Padua’,Shakespearean echo is taken to the point of the ludicrous) and it is written in blank verse, decidedly not his medium. Yet, although crippled as an acting piece by such defects, it retains interest as a revelation of Wilde’s thinking on themes that were important to him and on the staging methods which he hoped would realise them.

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A Modern Perspective on Wilde as Man of Theatre,w how to take him. ‘They laugh angrily at his epigrams’, said Shaw, reviewing the first performance of ., ‘like a child who is coaxed into being amused in the very act of setting up a yell of rage and agony’. They did not grasp the subtlety of this wit. ‘As far as I can ascertain’ Shaw mocked, ‘I am

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