Description
The Duchess of Padua is a stage performance by Oscar Wilde. It is composed of 5 acts, melodramatic tragedy taking place in Padua and drafted in blank verse. It was scribed for the female cast Mary Anderson in 1883 while she was in Paris. After she refused, it was discarded till its first show at the Broadway Theatre in New York City with the title Guido Ferrantion, where it was shown for three weeks. It has been seldom restaged or deliberated. Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and script writer. After drafting in many styles during the latter part of the 19th century, he was among London’s very famous script writers in the first years of 1890s. He is mostly recognized for his epigrams and stage plays, his work of fiction, The Picture of Dorian Gray, also with the incidents of his captivity and early demise. When he became a spokesman for aestheticism, he was occupied with different literary goings-on: he wrote a collection of poems, gave lectures in the United States and Canada on the new “English Renaissance in Art”, and thereafter went back to London where he was hired creatively as a journalist. He was renowned for his intelligence, humor, outrageous robe and glistening dialogue talent, Oscar was among the most famous figures of his time. He also advanced his thoughts of the rule of art in a sequence of conversations and essays, and integrated topics of depravity, deceit, and attraction into what would be his only novella, The Picture of Dorian Gray published in 1890. The chance to build aesthetic specifics concisely, and unite them with bigger societal plots, led Oscar to transcribe a dramatical skit. He produced Salome in French while in Paris even though it was declined a licence for England because of a definite restraint on the depiction of Biblical matters on the English play.
Product ID: 9781776741366
Sku: TS-CSTK-NXXL
