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The secret fall of Constance Wilde / Thomas Kilroy.
LIBRA PR6061.I38 S43 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kilroy, Thomas.
- Series:
- Gallery books.
- Gallery books
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wilde, Constance, 1858-1898--Drama.
- Wilde, Constance.
- Wilde, Constance, 1858-1898.
- Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900--Marriage--Drama.
- Wilde, Oscar.
- Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900.
- Marriage.
- Douglas, Alfred Bruce, 1870-1945--Drama.
- Douglas, Alfred Bruce.
- Douglas, Alfred Bruce, 1870-1945.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Kilroy, Thomas (autograph) (inscription) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 69 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oldcastle, Co. Meath, Ireland : Gallery Press, 1997.
- Summary:
- A luminous drama about Wilde's wife's struggle for redemption. The play traces the hidden life of Constance Wilde. Her story explores the gender and sexuality of people who "belonged to the future," and untangles the shifting lines in the complex relationship between her, her husband, and his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. Through a drama of magical transformations and mysterious, masked figures, set against the back-ground of one of the most notorious cases in British legal history, Kilroy divines the cost of the characters' conduct, Oscar's plea for salvation in Constance's eyes, and her heroic exertion to reclaim a state of grace.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy inscribed "[Easter] '98 For Gene with thanks -- as always Tom" on title page.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has illustrated card with ms. note on verso laid in.
- ISBN:
- 1852351934
- 1852351942
- OCLC:
- 38112989
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