Acting Wilde: Victorian Sexuality, Theatre, and Oscar Wilde
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521283388
ISBN13:9780521283380
Release Date:June 2011
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:216 Pages
Weight:0.65 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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