The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde offers an essential introduction to one of the theater's most important and enigmatic writers. Although a general overview, the volume also offers some of the latest thinking on the dramatist and his impact on the twentieth century. Part One places Wilde's work within the cultural and historical context of his time and includes an opening essay by Wilde's grandson, Merlin Holland. Part Two looks at Wilde's essential work as playwright and general writer. The third group of essays examines the themes and factors that shaped Wilde's work and includes Wilde and his view of the Victorian woman, Wilde's sexual identities, and interpreting Wilde on stage. The volume provides a detailed chronology of Wilde's work, a bibliography for further reading, and illustrations from important productions.
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"The Cambridge Companion (a particularly refreshing collection...)is certainly the first of these volumes a Wilde enthusiast will want to own. Edited by Peter Raby...these 15 essays venture more deeply into the manner and more deftly into the manners of the subject than do many works of scholarly inquiry and speculation, some of the latter by the same contributors who have here been more succinct more pointed than in their bookmaking projects elsewhere." Richard Howard, LA Times
"An excellent overview of an important and enigmatic writer; enthusiastically recommended for all literary collections and all Wilde devotees." G. A. Cevasco, Choice
"The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde exhibits the scholarly authority for which the series of which it is a part - the Cambridge Companions to Literature - has come to be known." Victorian Studies
"An excellent overview of an important and enigmatic writer; enthusiastically recommended for all literary collections and all Wilde devotees." G. A. Cevasco, Choice
"The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde exhibits the scholarly authority for which the series of which it is a part - the Cambridge Companions to Literature - has come to be known." Victorian Studies
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The Companion to Oscar Wilde offers an essential introduction to one of the theatre's most important and enigmatic writers. Part one places Wilde's work within the cultural and historical context of his time. Part two looks at Wilde's essential work. The third group of essays examines the themes and factors which shaped Wilde's work.
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This review is from: The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde (Cambridge Companions to Literature) (Paperback)
A very limited book, though you would think otherwise being a Cambridge level research. On the matter of Wilde's view on art and his influences, i would rather recommend " Cosmopolitan Criticism" by Julia Prewitt Brown.
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Three days before he died in the Hotel d' Alsace, Oscar Wilde was asked by the proprietor Jean Dupoirier about his life in London. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
multiform creature, love that dare, being earnest, ideal husband, green carnation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Oscar Wilde, Dorian Gray, Lady Windermere, New York, The Importance of Being Earnest, Lady Bracknell, West End, Sibyl Vane, Frank Harris, Pall Mall Gazette, Cambridge University Press, Lady Chiltern, Robert Ross, Willie Hughes, Lord Henry Wotton, Lord Illingworth, Oxford University Press, Richard Ellmann, Lord Goring, Peter Raby, Alan Sinfield, Arthur Symons, Robert Sherard, Aubrey Beardsley, Bernard Shaw New!
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Three days before he died in the Hotel d' Alsace, Oscar Wilde was asked by the proprietor Jean Dupoirier about his life in London. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
multiform creature, love that dare, being earnest, ideal husband, green carnation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Oscar Wilde, Dorian Gray, Lady Windermere, New York, The Importance of Being Earnest, Lady Bracknell, West End, Sibyl Vane, Frank Harris, Pall Mall Gazette, Cambridge University Press, Lady Chiltern, Robert Ross, Willie Hughes, Lord Henry Wotton, Lord Illingworth, Oxford University Press, Richard Ellmann, Lord Goring, Peter Raby, Alan Sinfield, Arthur Symons, Robert Sherard, Aubrey Beardsley, Bernard Shaw New!
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- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde on 29 pages
- The Decay of Lying by Oscar Wilde on 23 pages
- The Critic as Artist (Green Integer) by Oscar Wilde on 14 pages
- Oscar Wilde (Literary Lives) by Vyvyan B. Holland on 14 pages
- Modern Dramatists: Oscar Wilde (Critical Heritage) by Karl Beckson on 9 pages
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- Selected Journalism (Oxford World's Classics) by Oscar Wilde in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Shaun Richards in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Cambridge Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Theatre (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Kerry Powell on page 205, and Back Matter
- The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings by Oscar Wilde in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Italian Modernism: Italian Culture between Decadentism and Avant-Garde (Toronto Italian Studies) by Mario Moroni on page 120, and page 128
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