Acting Wilde

Victorian Sexuality, Theatre, and Oscar Wilde

von Kerry Powell

216 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

'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 book reconstructs Wilde's strategic dramatising of himself.

• Themen: Kunst Darstellende Künste Geschichte der darstellenden Künste
• ISBN: 9780521516921
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 11.08.2010
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press