The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde
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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Contents
Table of Contents:
- Biography and the art of lying / Merlin Holland
- Wilde and the Victorians / Regenia Gagnier
- Wilde and the Dandyism of the senses / Stephen Calloway
- Wilde as poet / Karl Beckson and Bobby Fong
- Wilde the journalist / John Stokes
- Wilde as critic and theorist / Lawrence Danson
- Wilde's fiction(s) / Jerusha McCormack
- Distance, death and desire in Salome / Joseph Donohue
- Wilde's comedies of society / Peter Raby
- The importance of being earnest / Russell Jackson
- A verdict of death: Oscar Wilde, actresses and Victorian women / Kerry Powell
- 'A complex multiform creature': Wilde's sexual identities / Joseph Bristow
- Wilde's plays: some lines of influence / Richard Allen Cave
- Wilde on the stage / Joel Kaplan
- Oscar Wilde: the resurgence of lying / Declan Kiberd.
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Page 93 - A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.
Page 63 - To drift with every passion till my soul Is a stringed lute on which all winds can play. Is it for this that I have given away Mine ancient wisdom, and austere control? Methinks my life is a twice-written scroll Scrawled over on some boyish holiday With idle songs for pipe and virelay, Which do but mar the secret of the whole. Surely there was a time I might have trod The sunlit heights...
Page 25 - Thirdly, even if the received opinion be not only true, but the whole truth; unless it is suffered to be, and actually is, vigorously and earnestly contested, it will, by most of those who receive it, be held in the manner of a prejudice, with little comprehension or feeling of its rational grounds.
Page 83 - She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the secrets of the grave; and has been a diver in deep seas, and keeps their fallen day about her ; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants...
Page 24 - Secondly, though the silenced opinion be an error, it may, and very commonly does, contain a portion of truth; and since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinions that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied.
Page 277 - His language, so familiar and so foreign, will always be for me an acquired speech.
Page 76 - His countenance lives in my mind as one of singular beauty and brightness — it had an expression as if he had been looking on some glorious sight.
Page 190 - I loved you because you were marvellous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realised the dreams of great poets and gave shape and substance to the shadows of art. You have thrown it all away. You are shallow and stupid. My God! how mad I was to love you! What a fool I have been! You are nothing to me now. I will never see you again.
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