Graham Price, Oscar Wilde and Contemporary Irish Drama: Learning to Be Oscar’s Contemporary

Abstract

Oscar Wilde and Contemporary Irish Drama: Learning to Be Oscar’s Contemporary is a valuable book for anyone who wants to have a broad view of the ways in which contemporary Irish drama (defined here as post 1964 Philadelphia Here I Come!) resonates with Wildean ways. The book title could prove misleading if one only viewed Oscar Wilde as a playwright, since Graham Price’s investigation also takes into account multiple aspects of Wilde’s life as well as his work as a critic or theorist. Price ...