Essays about: "Renaissance Drama"

Found 1 essay containing the words Renaissance Drama.

  1. 1. Rediscovering Beatrice and Bianca: A Study of Oscar Wilde’s Tragedies The Duchess of Padua (1883) and A Florentine Tragedy (1894)

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Minon Weber; [2020]
    Keywords : Oscar Wilde; Victorian Literature; Drama; Theatre; 19th Century Literature; Renaissance Drama; Theatre; Elizabethan Drama; Jacobean Drama; A Florentine Tragedy; The Duchess of Padua; Wilde; Wilde Studies; Transgression; Feminist Criticism; Historicist Criticism; Genetic Criticism;

    Abstract : Towards the end of the 19th century Oscar Wilde wrote the four society plays that would become his most famous dramatical works: Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893), An Ideal Husband (1895) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). The plays combined characteristic Wildean witticisms with cunning social criticism of Victorian society, using stereotypical characters such as the dandy, the fallen woman and the “ideal” woman to mock the double moral and strict social expectations of Victorian society. READ MORE