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The Unmasking of Oscar Wilde

Author : Joseph Pearce
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1681495643
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book The Unmasking of Oscar Wilde written by Joseph Pearce and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2009-09-03 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vilified by fellow Victorians for his sexuality and his dandyism, Oscar Wilde, the great poet, satirist and playwright, is hailed today, in some circles, as a progressive sexual liberator. But this image is not how Wilde saw himself. Joseph Pearce's biography strips away pretensions to show the real man, his aspirations and desires. It uncovers how he was broken by his prison sentence; it probes the deeper thinking behind masterpieces such as The Picture of Dorian Gray and De Profundis; and it traces his fascination with Catholicism through to his eleventh-hour conversion. Pearce removes the masks and reveals the Wilde beneath the surface. He has written a profound, wide-ranging study with many original insights on a great literary figure.

Patience, Or, Bunthorne's Bride

Author : Arthur Sullivan
Publisher : London : Chappell
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Patience, Or, Bunthorne's Bride written by Arthur Sullivan and published by London : Chappell. This book was released on 1911 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan

Author : W. S. Gilbert
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368304569
Total Pages : 1137 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan written by W. S. Gilbert and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-09-28 with total page 1137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.

W.S. Gilbert

Author : Jane W. Stedman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198161745
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book W.S. Gilbert written by Jane W. Stedman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911) was the most brilliant dramatist of Victorian England. A daring and cynical playwright, the forerunner of Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw, he was also a prolific journalist and humorous poet (his Bab Ballads are still widely read), and he achieved worldwide fame through his long collaboration with the composer Arthur Sullivan, a collaboration that created such classics as H. M. S. Pinafore, The Mikado, and all the other Savoy operas. Now the story of this remarkable writer's life - and of his stormy relationship with Sullivan - is here chronicled by a renowned authority on Gilbert and on the theatrical and literary scene in Victorian London. For this biography, Jane W. Stedman has returned to original sources, has interviewed survivors, and has scoured a whole variety of Victorian periodicals for reviews, and personal comment. Gilbert emerges as a much more complex and interesting figure than has previously been thought. The book is a worthy companion piece to Arthur Jacobs's recent biography Arthur Sullivan: A Victorian Musician.

Plays & Poems of W.S. Gilbert

Author : William Schwenck Gilbert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1292 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Plays & Poems of W.S. Gilbert written by William Schwenck Gilbert and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 1292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wilde in America: Oscar Wilde and the Invention of Modern Celebrity

Author : David M. Friedman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393245918
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Book Synopsis Wilde in America: Oscar Wilde and the Invention of Modern Celebrity by : David M. Friedman

Download or read book Wilde in America: Oscar Wilde and the Invention of Modern Celebrity written by David M. Friedman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-10-06 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Oscar Wilde’s landmark 1882 American tour explains how this quotable literary eminence became famous for being famous. On January 3, 1882, Oscar Wilde, a twenty-seven-year-old “genius”—at least by his own reckoning—arrived in New York. The Dublin-born Oxford man had made such a spectacle of himself in London with his eccentric fashion sense, acerbic wit, and extravagant passion for art and home design that Gilbert & Sullivan wrote an operetta lampooning him. He was hired to go to America to promote that work by presenting lectures on interior decorating. But Wilde had his own business plan. He would go to promote himself. And he did, traveling some 15,000 miles and visiting 150 American cities as he created a template for fame creation that still works today. Though Wilde was only the author of a self-published book of poems and an unproduced play, he presented himself as a “star,” taking the stage in satin breeches and a velvet coat with lace trim as he sang the praises of sconces and embroidered pillows—and himself. What Wilde so presciently understood is that fame could launch a career as well as cap one. David M. Friedman’s lively and often hilarious narrative whisks us across nineteenth-century America, from the mansions of Gilded Age Manhattan to roller-skating rinks in Indiana, from an opium den in San Francisco to the bottom of the Matchless silver mine in Colorado—then the richest on earth—where Wilde dined with twelve gobsmacked miners, later describing their feast to his friends in London as “First course: whiskey. Second course: whiskey. Third course: whiskey.” But, as Friedman shows, Wilde was no mere clown; he was a strategist. From his antics in London to his manipulation of the media—Wilde gave 100 interviews in America, more than anyone else in the world in 1882—he designed every move to increase his renown. There had been famous people before him, but Wilde was the first to become famous for being famous. Wilde in America is an enchanting tale of travel and transformation, comedy and capitalism—an unforgettable story that teaches us about our present as well as our past.

W.S. Gilbert and the Context of Comedy

Author : Richard Moore
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429859619
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book W.S. Gilbert and the Context of Comedy written by Richard Moore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-03 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To what extent is a great comic writer the product of his time? How far is he (or she) influenced by factors of personal psychology upbringing and environment? To what is the writing actually part of a long continuum in which there is continuity within change and change within continuity? The Progress of Fun considers principally the last of these areas, focussing on the case of W.S. Gilbert and challenging the frequently held view that he is pre-eminently a typical Victorian. This it does by tracing his roots back to Ancient Greek comedy and to the various comedic developments that have dominated Western Europe thereafter. Also included is a careful examination of the constraints and limitations that in various forms have long affected comedy-writing, and an evaluation of Gilbert’s particular skills and legacy within the on-going process. The whole is a suitable prelude to a second volume (Pipes and Tabors) which will consider Genre in W.S. Gilbert, again relating it to comedic precedents and the universally timeless within the particular.

Oscar Wilde and Classical Antiquity

Author : Kathleen Riley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198789262
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Oscar Wilde and Classical Antiquity written by Kathleen Riley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few authors of the Victorian period were as immersed in classical learning as Oscar Wilde. Although famous now and during his lifetime as a wit, aesthete, and master epigrammist, Wilde distinguished himself early on as a talented classical scholar, studying at Trinity College Dublin and Oxford and winning academic prizes and distinctions at both institutions. His undergraduate notebooks as well as his essays and articles on ancient topics reveal a mind engrossed in problems in classical scholarship and fascinated by the relationship between ancient and modern thought. His first publications were English translations of classical texts and even after he had 'left Parnassus for Piccadilly' antiquity continued to provide him with a critical vocabulary in which he could express himself and his aestheticism, an intellectual framework for understanding the world around him, and a compelling set of narratives to fire his artist's imagination. His debt to Greece and Rome is evident throughout his writings, from the sparkling wit of society plays like The Importance of Being Earnest to the extraordinary meditation on suffering that is De Profundis, written during his incarceration in Reading Gaol. Oscar Wilde and Classical Antiquity brings together scholars from across the disciplines of classics, ancient history, English literature, theatre and performance studies, and the history of ideas to explore the varied and profound impact that Graeco-Roman antiquity had on Wilde's life and work. This wide-ranging collection covers all the major genres of his literary output; it includes new perspectives on his most celebrated and canonical texts and close analyses of unpublished material, revealing as never before the enduring breadth and depth of his love affair with the classics.

On Whiteness

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1848881053
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book On Whiteness written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-05-18 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays cover an astonishing range of subject matter, from mental health and plastic surgery to literature, music, political philosophy, performance, popular culture and history. They interrogate the dominance of whiteness, exposing the underpinnings of white privilege and considering its global consequences.

Oscar Wilde

Author : Facts On File, Incorporated
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 143812595X
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Oscar Wilde written by Facts On File, Incorporated and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the success of The Importance of Being Earnest, Wilde is sometimes better known for his indecency trial, in which he was sentenced to two years of hard labor.

Gilbert and Sullivan

Author : Carolyn Williams
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231148054
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Gilbert and Sullivan written by Carolyn Williams and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operas, and how parody was used in the culture wars of late-nineteenth-century England.

A Study Guide for Oscar Wilde's "An Ideal Husband"

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Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 1410349144
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book A Study Guide for Oscar Wilde's "An Ideal Husband" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2016 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Oscar Wilde's "An Ideal Husband," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.

Oscar Wilde

Author : E.H. Mikhail
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349039268
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Oscar Wilde written by E.H. Mikhail and published by Springer. This book was released on 1979-06-17 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Arnoldian

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Arnoldian written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Oscar Wilde

Author : EPUB 2-3
Publisher : Infobase Learning
ISBN 13 : 1438148429
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Oscar Wilde written by EPUB 2-3 and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Oscar Wilde's Chatterton

Author : Joseph Bristow
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300208308
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Oscar Wilde's Chatterton written by Joseph Bristow and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Oscar Wilde's Chatterton, Joseph Bristow and Rebecca N. Mitchell explore Wilde's fascination with the eighteenth-century forger Thomas Chatterton, who tragically took his life at the age of seventeen. This innovative study combines a scholarly monograph with a textual edition of the extensive notes that Wilde took on the brilliant forger who inspired not only Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Keats but also Victorian artists and authors. Bristow and Mitchell argue that Wilde's substantial “Chatterton” notebook, which previous scholars have deemed a work of plagiarism, is central to his development as a gifted writer of criticism, drama, fiction, and poetry. This volume, which covers the whole span of Wilde's career, reveals that his research on Chatterton informs his deepest engagements with Romanticism, plagiarism, and forgery, especially in later works such as “The Portrait of Mr. W. H.,”The Picture of Dorian Gray, and The Importance of Being Earnest. Grounded in painstaking archival research that draws on previously undiscovered sources,Oscar Wilde's Chatterton explains why, in Wilde's personal canon of great writers (which included such figures as Charles Baudelaire, Gustave Flaubert, Théophile Gautier, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti), Chatterton stood as an equal in this most distinguished company.

Aestheticism and Sexual Parody 1840-1940

Author : Dennis Denisoff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521024891
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Aestheticism and Sexual Parody 1840-1940 written by Dennis Denisoff and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-16 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original and provocative 2001 study discusses the work of a number of authors in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in order to argue that mainstream society was enabled to accept the non-normative sexuality of the Aesthetic Movement chiefly through parody and self-parody. Highlighting Victorian popular culture, Aestheticism and Sexual Parody adds an important dimension to the theorisations of parody as a combative strategy by which sexually marginalized groups undermine the status quo. From W. S. Gilbert's drama and Vernon Lee and Christopher Isherwood's prose to George du Maurier's cartoons and Max Beerbohm's caricatures, Dennis Denisoff explores the parodies' interactions with the personae and texts of canonical authors such as Alfred Tennyson, Walter Pater, Algernon Swinburne, and Oscar Wilde. In doing so, he considers the impact that these interactions had on modern ideas of gender, sexuality, taste and politics.