Listen to the recording of the text, read it through, and then fill in the blanks in the following sentences to see whether you have grasped the main ideas of the article. Nightingale looking for a red rose to facilitate the love Nightingale sacrificing her life for a red rose Student discarding the red roseĩ Summary of the text Pre-class Work II (Ss book P89) His greatest performance was the role of "Oscar Wilde": in that sense he taught the 20th century how to be itself.Ĩ Structure Nightingale struck by the “the mystery of love” Arguably, his greatest success was his greatest public failure: in his scandalous trials he shaped 20th century attitudes toward homosexuality and toward theatricality and toward performativity. He was Irish but achieved his great successes in England. His antecedents are 18th century playwrights, and he opened a path of irony and structural self-reflexivity that leads to Beckett and Tom Stoppard.ħ He was Irish but achieved his great successes in England His aesthetics look backwards to the aestheticism of Peter and the moral sensibility of Ruskin, and they look forward to Modernism. “Lady Windermere’s Fan” (1892) “A Woman of No Importance” (1893) “An Ideal Husband” (1895).Ħ Oscar Wilde seems not only to be on the threshold between centuries and between cultural-systems: in many ways he seems to be the threshold. About the authorĥ About the author “The Importance of Being Earnest” (1895) 2 About the author Birthname: Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde Birth: OctoDublin, Ireland Death: November 30, 1900;Paris, Franceģ College: Trinity College, Magdalen College Occupation: Playwright, novelist, poet, editor Parents: Sir William Wilde / Jane Francesca Elgee Children: Cyril/Vyvyan About the authorĤ Oscar Wilde’s rich and dramatic portrayals of the human condition came during the height of the Victorian Era that swept through London in the late 19th century.
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