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Gross Indecency de Moises Kaufman

Gross Indecency

Autor Moises Kaufman
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 ian 1998
A riveting new play -- a critically acclaimed Off Broadway hit -- that enacts Oscar Wide's tragic downfall with tremendous feeling and startling theatricality, A Vintage Original. Like Mamet's Oleanna, the play everyone was talking about a few years ago, Gross Indecency has sparked widespread discussion. It has tapped into reawakened interest in Wilde, who is also the subject of two forthcoming movies.
This multi-layered, complex work takes us beyond what we thought we knew about Wilde; it will be taught and will backlist forever.
"A dazzling coup de theatre, at once compelling history and chilling human drama". -- Time
"Thrilling ... unforgettable, maybe even life-changing ... deftly tells the story of the downfall of a great artist with the inevitability and much of the monumentality of a Greek tragedy". -- USA Today
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ISBN-13: 9780375702327
ISBN-10: 0375702326
Pagini: 160
Dimensiuni: 132 x 204 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Ediția:LST.
Editura: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Locul publicării:New York, NY

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In April 1895 Oscar Wilde brought a libel suit against the Marquess of Queensberry, the father of his youthful lover, who had publicly maligned him as a sodomite. In doing so, England's reigning man of letters set in motion a series of events that would culminate in his ruin and imprisonment. For within a year the bewildered Wilde himself was on trial for acts of "gross indecency" and - implicity - for a vision of art that outraged Victorian propriety. In this work of the theater - a smash hit Off Broadway - Moises Kaufman turns the trials of Oscar Wilde into a riveting human and intellectual drama. Expertly interweaving courtroom testimony with excerpts from Wilde's writings and the words of his contemporaries, Gross Indecency unveils its subject in all his genius and human frailty, his age in all its complacency and repression.

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"Thrilling...unforgettable, maybe even life-changing...it has the inevitablity and much of the monumentality of a Greek tragedy" (USA today)



In 1895 Oscar Wilde brought a libel suit against the Marquess of Queensberry for publicly maligning him as a sodomite, thus setting in motion a chain of events which culminated in Wilde's own conviction and imprisonment for gross indecency. Weaving together original courtroom transcripts with writings by Wilde and his contemporaries, Gross Indecency charts the tragic downfall of the most sophisticated man of Victorian letters at the hands of a society that was itself outwardly elegant and adventurous, yet inwardly deeply repressive and vindictive.
"Kaufman has dramatized Wilde's fall with the sort of rapier stylization that Wilde himself would have admired." (Time)