Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Blurb
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (13 download)
Book Synopsis The Duchess of Padua (Esprios Classics) by : Oscar Wilde
Download or read book The Duchess of Padua (Esprios Classics) written by Oscar Wilde and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2022-06-05 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Duchess of Padua is a play by Oscar Wilde. It is a five-act tragedy set in Padua and written in blank verse. It was written for the actress Mary Anderson in early 1883 while in Paris. After she turned it down, it was abandoned until its first performance at the Broadway Theatre in New York City under the title Guido Ferranti on 26 January 1891, where it ran for three weeks. It has been rarely revived or studied. Wilde first mentioned the possibility of writing a five-act blank verse tragedy in the Biograph in 1880, originally to be entitled The Duchess of Florence. Wilde was strongly influenced by Lucrezia Borgia (1833) and Angelo, Tyrant of Padua (1835), two Italian-set historical plays by Victor Hugo.