Today we almost finished watching the whole of the Suchet version of this amazing play and then had a wonderful tutorial in which we drilled down deeply into how Wilde’s language parodies the late Victorians. He is such an amazingly clever artist. Listen to the tutorial below to see how clever our students are in…
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Oscar Wilde and the End of the 19th Century
David Suchet in the role of Lady Bracknell brings Oscar Wilde’s satire of the British upper classes into a powerful focus. She is so much of the age of surfaces that anything she says or does is a complete parody of who she might think she is. Take a look at this interview with Suchet on his role in…
The Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde
David Suchet in the role of Lady Bracknell brings Oscar Wilde’s satire of the British upper classes into a powerful focus. She is so much of the age of surfaces that anything she says or does is a complete parody of who she might think she is. Take a look at this interview with Suchet on his role in…
End of Week 3: The Importance of Being Earnest: A Backward Glance at the Nineteenth Century.
What a buzz for us all to see The Importance of Being Earnest performed by an utterly world-class production by the National Theatre of London. David Suchet as Lady Bracknell would have to be one of the most GROTESQUE stage presences we have seen in a long time And this hard angular, masculine, pompous, utterly self-important…
Wilde, Shaw, Jagger and the Challenge to a Dysfunctional Society
Oscar Wilde’s biographer Richard Ellman tells us that “From as early as 1881 … literary London was put out of countenance by this outrageous Irishman … who declared he was a socialist and hinted he was a homosexual, while patently mocking wise saws on all subjects. He declined, in a public and ceremonious manner, to live…
Oscar Wilde- the Mick Jagger of the Late 19th Century
Oscar Wilde was undoubtedly an earlier version of Mick Jagger in his daring to confront a staid middle class with outrageous dress and demeanour. As has been noted: “The Rolling Stones were in the vanguard of the British Invasion of bands that became popular in the US in 1964–65. At first noted for their longish hair as much…
Michael Griffith: Home Page- Literature and Life Spring 2025 
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