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ISBN: 1156812526 ISBN-13: 9781156812525 Publisher: Books LLC, Wiki Series OUR PRICE: $20.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2011 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
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| Publisher Description: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 70. Chapters: Oscar Wilde, Emile Zola, Henrik Ibsen, Georges Feydeau, August Strindberg, Anton Chekhov, Nikolai Gogol, John Considine, Victorien Sardou, Henry Irving, Edmund Falconer, Gerhart Hauptmann, Melodrama, Toy theater, Hippodrama, Georg Buchner, Alexander Ostrovsky, Naturalism, Benoit-Constant Coquelin, Eugene Scribe, Well-made play, Andre Antoine, Tommaso Salvini, Ruth Herbert, Mikhail Shchepkin, Theatre Libre, Realism, Mindre teatern, Norman Forbes-Robertson, Vasateatern, Henry Becque, Nineteenth-century theatre, Meiningen Ensemble, Otto Brahm, Standeklausel. Excerpt: Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, plays and the circumstances of his imprisonment, followed by his early death. Wilde's parents were successful Dublin intellectuals. Their son became fluent in French and German early in life. At university Wilde read Greats; he proved himself to be an outstanding classicist, first at Dublin, then at Oxford. He became known for his involvement in the rising philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. He also profoundly explored Roman Catholicism, to which he would later convert on his deathbed. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles. As a spokesman for aestheticism, he tried his hand at various literary activities: he published a book of poems, lectured in the United States of America and Canada on the new "English Renaissance in Art," and then returned to London where he worked prolifically as a journalist. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress, and glittering conversation, Wilde had become one of the... |