THEA 281: Oscar Wilde and Late Victorian Theatre

2008-09 2009-10 →

Units: 4

Hours: Seminar, 4 hours

Catalog page 406

Prerequisites: graduate standing or consent of instructor

Description: Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), an Irish, feminist, aesthete, socialist, homosexual Victorian author, becomes a focus for the study of late Victorian theatre and culture. Readings are of Wilde’s plays and nondramatic writings and plays by related playwrights such as Ibsen and Shaw.