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Oscar: six acts at the Morgan. (Notebook).
In a letter to Robert Lowell of November 29, 1967, Dwight Macdonald wrote, "Oscar was almost always right (except in his erotic tastes and habits) about all the big issues of his time--social, moral, aesthetic." During the past century, Oscar Wilde has mutated from being regarded by serious people as an author of no importance to one who made them realize the importance of being (and reading) Oscar. Thus did a presumed lightweight become one of the most widely translated Anglophone writers in the world. But how well is Wilde recognized in today's America, where, to be sure, he has enjoyed immortalization via the T-shirt? Many people have only a spotty awareness of him, ...
- Plays of Oscar Wilde: Critical Commentary
- Reference information from: Monarch Notes Wilde, Oscar January 1, 1963 700+ words
Wilde, Oscar Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Critical...we try to come to an understanding of Oscar Wilde's place in English literature, we...eliminate Shakespeare from consideration. Oscar Wilde does not have such an exalted place...
- Plays of Oscar Wilde: Suggestions For Further Reading
- Reference information from: Monarch Notes Wilde, Oscar January 1, 1963 700+ words
Wilde, Oscar Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Suggestions...Describe the aesthetic movement of Oscar Wilde's time. What causes did it spring from? Are there any traces of it in Oscar Wilde's plays? Answer: The aesthetic movement...
- Plays of Oscar Wilde: The Plays
- Reference information from: Monarch Notes Wilde, Oscar January 1, 1963 700+ words
Wilde, Oscar Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 The Plays...the Italian composer Giacomo Puccini. Wilde's Dramatic Technique: When we turn to the plays of Oscar Wilde, we see that they belong, in terms of...
- Plays of Oscar Wilde: An Ideal Husband (1895)
- Reference information from: Monarch Notes Wilde, Oscar January 1, 1963 700+ words
Wilde, Oscar Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 An Ideal Husband...with Mrs. Cheveley. Lady Markby is one of Wilde's nice, addle-pated ladies whose conversation...to Mrs. Cheveley's demands. Comment: Wilde makes use here of a plot full of intrigue...
- Plays of Oscar Wilde: Queen Victoria's England
- Reference information from: Monarch Notes Wilde, Oscar January 1, 1963 700+ words
Wilde, Oscar Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Queen Victoria's England: Every writer is marked by the age in which he lives and writes. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) passed the whole of his short life in the reign of Queen...
- Plays of Oscar Wilde: The Importance Of Being Earnest (1895)
- Reference information from: Monarch Notes Wilde, Oscar January 1, 1963 700+ words
Wilde, Oscar Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 The Importance...help of Bunbury. Comment: In this play, Wilde has made a strong and brilliant development...themselves in. As in the other plays, Wilde has some very complicated explanations to...
- Plays of Oscar Wilde: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
- Reference information from: Monarch Notes Wilde, Oscar January 1, 1963 700+ words
Wilde, Oscar Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Lady Windermere's Fan (1892) Act I Summary...gracefully arranging roses in a bowl. Her butler (no household on a Wilde play is without one) enters to announce that Lord Darlington has come to...
- Plays of Oscar Wilde: A Woman Of No Importance (1983)
- Reference information from: Monarch Notes Wilde, Oscar January 1, 1963 700+ words
Wilde, Oscar Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 A Woman Of No Importance (1983) Act I Summary: The scene is Hunstanton Chase, a large English...