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Flashcards by Ellie Hope, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Ellie Hope
almost 7 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| 'I took the drama ... and made it as a personal a mode of expression as the lyric or the sonnet' | Oscar Wilde |
| 'Plots are tedious. Anyone an invent them' | Oscar Wilde |
| 'Wilde disdained the notion that public opinion should exercise any shaping power over art' | Sos Eltis |
| 'Art, Wilde insisted, was to be judged by aesthetic criteria alone' | Sos Eltis |
| 'A problem play, a society drama engaging with contemporary issues' | Sos Eltis |
| 'Lady Chiltern who accepts not only her husband's feet of clay but also that his love is conditional on her continuing support for his political ambition' | Sos Eltis |
| 'Indeterminancies are not incidental but crucial to the unsettling effect' | Sos Eltis |
| 'A deceptive and indeterminate play' | Sos Eltis |
| 'Wilde resisted characteristics of his plays as stylistically or morally conventional' | Sos Eltis |
| 'A uniting of heart and head, intellect and emotion' | Sos Eltis on Sir Robert and Lady Chiltern |
| Mr Wilde is to me our only thorough playwright' | George Bernard Shaw |
| 'Wilde's barbed comments on politicians' | Plays International |
| 'The play's appositeness to the here and now takes your breath away' | Plays International |
| 'She [Mrs Cheveley] and Lord Goring are, in a sense, exotic birds of a feather, the one corrupted as the other is humanised by a talent for seeing through English hypocrisy' | Paul Taylor |
| 'The plots are creaking old contrivances' | John Russell Taylor |
| 'The plots of his plays were less important to him than the language' | Peter Raby |
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