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Acting Wilde - Victorian Sexuality, Theatre, and Oscar Wilde (Paperback)
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Acting Wilde - Victorian Sexuality, Theatre, and Oscar Wilde (Paperback)
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'I love acting it is so much more real than life, ' Oscar Wilde
famously wrote. Acting Wilde demonstrates that Wilde's plays,
fiction, and critical theory are organised by the idea that all
so-called 'reality' is a mode of performance, and that the
'meanings' of life are really the scripted elements of a dramatic
spectacle. Wilde's real issue was whether one could become the
author of his own script, the creator of the character and role he
inhabits. It was a question he struggled to answer from the
beginning of his career to the end, whether in his position as the
pre-eminent dramatist in English or as the beleaguered defendant on
trial for 'gross indecency'. Introducing important evidence from
Wilde's career-launching tour of America, the often tortured
revisions of his plays, and the recently discovered written record
of his first courtroom trial, this 2009 book reconstructs Wilde's
strategic dramatising of himself.
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