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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. 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 2009 book reconstructs Wilde's strategic dramatising of himself.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Acting Wilde
• Author: Kerry Powell
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 216
• EAN: 9780521516921
• ISBN: 0521516927
• ID: 04378485
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 490 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. October 2009

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