Format:
1 Online-Ressource (222 p)
Edition:
1st, New ed
ISBN:
9783035101102
Content:
This book revisits Oscar Wilde’s major writings through the field of performance studies. Wilde wrote about performance as a cultural dialectic, as a form of serious and critical play, and as the basis of a subversive poetics. In his studies at Oxford University, his famous lecture tour of the United States and Canada, his friendships with famous actresses Sarah Bernhardt and Lillie Langtry, the writing of his critical essays, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Salome, and his society comedies, and culminating in his post-prison writings De Profundis and The Ballad of Reading Gaol, Wilde develops a rich theory of performance that addresses aesthetics, ethics, identity and individualism. This book also traces Wilde’s often-troubled relationship with late-Victorian society in terms of its attempts to define his public performances by stereotyping him as both irrelevant and dangerous, from the early newspaper caricatures to its later description of him as a sexual monster
Content:
Contents: Oscar Wilde and Performance Theory – Foundations and Experiments: Oscar Wilde at Oxford – Celebrity, Caricatures and Public Performances in the 1880s – Wilde’s Performance Theory and the Critical Essays – Decadent Anxiety and Negative Capabilities: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Salome – The Dialectic of Persona and Stereotype in the Society Comedies – Performance as Redemption in De Profundis and The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783034304399
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783034304399
Language:
English
DOI:
10.3726/978-3-0351-0110-2
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Author information:
Marcovitch, Heather
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