{"product_id":"acting-wilde-victorian-sexuality-theatre-and-oscar-wilde-0521516927","title":"Acting Wilde: Victorian Sexuality, Theatre, and Oscar Wilde","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0521516927\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Powell, Kerry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'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 book reconstructs Wilde's strategic dramatising of himself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51944967143712,"sku":"NEW0521516927","price":172.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/acting-wilde-victorian-sexuality-theatre-and-oscar-wilde-0521516927","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}