Florentine Tragedy and La Sainte Courtisane, A

By Wilde, Oscar

Book Id: WPLBN0002954110
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File Size: 26.90 MB
Reproduction Date: 2009

Title:	Florentine Tragedy and La Sainte Courtisane, A
Author:	Wilde, Oscar
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Dramatic Works, Play
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Florentine Tragedy and La Sainte Courtisane, A
Historic Publication Date:	1917
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Wilde, B. O., & Ross, R. (1917). Florentine Tragedy and La Sainte Courtisane, A. Retrieved from http://self.gutenberg.org/

Description
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)

Summary
Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

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Play