Oscar Wilde speaks just as strongly to the 21st century as he did to his own If Harold Pinter's work represents, as he slyly joked, the weasel under the cocktail cabinet, then Oscar Wilde's represents the stiletto in the Victorian sponge " at a time when the stiletto was a slim dagger used for assassination. Beneath the fopperies and fripperies of his fin-de-siècle classic, every line draws blood as he skewers th…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:18AM on November 30, 2024