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Chapters: 16th-Century Theatre, 17th-Century Theatre, 18th-Century Theatre, 19th-Century Theatre, 20th-Century Theatre, Oscar Wilde, Emile Zola, Henrik Ibsen, Georges Feydeau, August Strindberg, Anton Chekhov, Nikolai Gogol, Henry Fielding's Early Plays, John Considine, Actor Rebellion of 1733, Victorien Sardou, Letter to M. D'alembert on Spectacles, Henry Irving, Intermedio, Edmund Falconer, Melodrama, Gerhart Hauptmann, Toy Theater, Viola, American Shakespeare Center, Hippodrama, Georg Buchner, Naturalism, Aleksander Ostrovsky, Eugene Scribe, Benoit-Constant Coquelin, Well-Made Play, Andre Antoine, War of the Theatres, Hamilton Deane, Timeline of Twentieth-Century Theatre, Tommaso Salvini, Mikhail Shchepkin, Theatre Libre, Realism, Nineteenth-Century Theatre, Mindre Teatern, Historia Histrionica, Oscarsteatern, Vasateatern, the Society of the Whitehall Masque, Theatre Practitioner, Strindbergs Intima Teater, Henry Becque, Meiningen Ensemble, Otto Brahm, Avant-Garde Theatre. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 299. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer, poet, and prominent aesthete. His parents were successful Dublin intellectuals, and from an early age he was tutored at home, where he showed his intelligence, becoming fluent in French and German. He attended boarding school for six years, then matriculated to university at seventeen years of age. Reading Greats, Wilde proved himself to be an outstanding classicist, first at Trinity College, Dublin, then at Magdalen College, Oxford. After university, Wilde moved around trying his hand at various literary activities: he published a book of poems and toured America lecturing extensively on aestheticism. He then returned to London, where he worked prolifical...http: //booksllc.net/?id=2261
