{"product_id":"acting-wilde-victorian-sexuality-theatre-and-oscar-wilde-9780521283380","title":"Acting Wilde: Victorian Sexuality, Theatre, and Oscar Wilde","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Kerry Powell\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Theater - History \u0026amp; Criticism\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":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46867845578903,"sku":"9780521283380","price":5237.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780521283380.webp?v=1769987457","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/acting-wilde-victorian-sexuality-theatre-and-oscar-wilde-9780521283380","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}