Oscar Wilde

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• 5. Wilde's Plays

  November 12, 2013 · 59 min

  Fifth lecture in the Osar Wilde series. Sos Eltis talks about Oscar Wilde's plays including an Ideal Husband, The Importance of Being Ernest and A Woman of No Importance.

• 4. Wilde and Sexuality

  November 11, 2013 · 58 min

  Fourth lecture in the Oscar Wilde series. Looking at Wilde's sexuality and how it influenced his literature.

• 3. Art and Morality

  October 29, 2013 · 59 min

  Sos Eltis gives the third lecture in the series on Oscar Wilde, focussing on Wilde's concept of morality shown in his works including the Picture of Dorian Gray, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and The Devoted Friend.

• 2. Wilde, Victorian and Modernist

  October 22, 2013 · 58 min

  Sos Eltis gives the second lecture in her series on Oscar Wilde, focussing on his place in the modernist tradition.

• 1. The Art of Biography and the Biography of Art

  October 14, 2013 · 51 min

  First lecture in the Oscar Wilde series in which Sos Eltis talks about Wilde's life and his work, De Profundis.

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