Book Oscar Wilde course 2025
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Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Live online course with Alison Hennegan, University of Cambridge.
Wilde’s work encompassed poetry, critical essays, political theory, short fiction, plays, a novel, a wealth of correspondence, and a form of memoir. The Importance of Being Earnest is often deemed to be one of the world’s very finest comedies.
The Ballad of Reading Gaol, written in prison, is internationally known and revered for its evocation of the horror, terror, and hope of redemption experienced not only by the man awaiting execution for murder but also by all his fellow inmates as the hour of death approaches.
In these four lectures we shall begin to explore some of Wilde’s remarkable diversity as a writer and as a man.
Four sessions, fortnightly, Tuesdays 25 March to 6 May 2025, 6.00-8.00 pm British Summer Time
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