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    10/09/2024
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    Florentine Tragedy and La Sainte Courtisane

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    Chapter: 3 | Listen: 3

    Two short fragments: an unfinished and a lost play. A Florentine Tragedy, left in a taxi (not a handbag), is Wilde’s most successful attempt at tragedy – intense and domestic, with surprising depth of characterisation. It was adapted into an opera by the Austrian composer Alexander Zemlinsky in 1917. La Sainte Courtisane, or The Woman Covered in Jewels explores one of Wilde’s great idées fixes: the paradox of religious hedonism, pagan piety. Both plays, Wildean to their core, revel in the profound sadness that is the fruit of the conflict between fidelity and forbidden love. Written towards the end of his tragic life, these fragments give us a glimpse of a genius at his best: visceral, passionate, personal, poetic. (Summary by Simon Larois) A Florentine Tragedy – cast: Narrator: TriciaG GUIDO BARDI, A Florentine prince: mb SIMONE, a merchant: Simon Larois BIANNA, his wife: Ruth Golding La Sainte Courtisane – cast: Narrator: Ruth Golding First man: mb Myrrhina: Philippa Second man: L.French Honorius: woggy298 Edited by Ruth Golding     [chương_files]  

    23/07/2024
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    Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde

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    Chapter: 26 | Listen: 3

    This is a selection of the early poetry of Oscar Wilde, selected by Robert Ross. As he puts it, “It is thought that a selection from Oscar Wilde’s early verses may be of interest to a large public at present familiar only with the always popular Ballad of Reading Gaol, also included in this volume. The poems were first collected by their author when he was twenty-six years old, and though never, until recently, well received by the critics, have survived the test of NINE editions. Readers will be able to make for themselves the obvious and striking contrasts between these first and last phases of Oscar Wilde’s literary activity. The intervening period was devoted almost entirely to dramas, prose, fiction, essays, and criticism.” – Summary by Carolin and Robert Ross     [chương_files]