CWPA 281: Oscar Wilde and Late Victorian Theatre

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Units: 4

Hours: Seminar, 4 hours

Catalog page 211

Prerequisites: graduate standing or consent of instructor

Description: A study of late Victorian the- atre and culture through the works of Oscar Wilde Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts (1854-1900), an Irish, feminist, aesthete, socialist, homosexual Victorian author. Includes readings of Wilde’s plays and nondramatic writings as well as plays by contemporaries such as Ibsen and Shaw.