PETER RABY INTRO

Question 1

Influence for A WOMAN`

Answer 1

THE FAMILY HERALD- a weekly downmarket domestic magazine

Question 2

What genre did Wilde draw on and subvert in LWF?

Answer 2

Melodrama

Question 3

What did Wilde take from LA PRINCESSE MALEINE for SALOME?

Answer 3

‘its use of colour, sound, dance, visual description and visual effect, offered Wilde a potent theatrical vocabulary’

Question 4

What did Wilde say in the Pall Mall Budget 1832?

Answer 4

‘I am not English, I am Irish which is quite another thing’

Question 5

Which more modern playwright produced a version of SALOME purely for its musical qualities?

Answer 5

Terence Gray

Question 6

Which more modern playwright produced a version of SALOME in slow motion?

Answer 6

Steven Berkoff

Question 7

Inspiration for AN IDEAL

Answer 7

Dumas’ Milady de Winter in The Three Musketeers

Question 8

Which real life political drama does Wilde draw on in AN IDEAL?

Answer 8

Disraeli’s handling of the Suez Canal transactions

Question 9

Which play seems to adhere most clearly to Wilde’s personal life?

Answer 9

EARNEST

Question 10

Which critic argues that EARNEST has a subtext of allusions to homosexuality?

Answer 10

Joseph Bristow