Entries for Blackwell’s Encyclopedia of Greek Comedy: comedy (modern Western); Guizot, Maurice Guillaume; Wilde, Oscar (original) (raw)

Oscar Wilde’s Social Comedies in Modern Greek Theatre (1908-1945)

2015

The reception of Oscar Wilde in Greece has occasionally been studied, although modern theoretical works around aestheticism devote a significant part to his influence on Greek artists at the beginning of twentieth century. Some of his plays – mostly Salomé and A Florentine Tragedy (1908) as well as an adaptation of The Portrait of Dorian Gray (1916) – appeared in translation and on theatre stage just after the release of his postmortem apologetic De Profundis. His comedy The Importance of Being Earnest, was introduced to the Greek audience simultaneously with his tragedies in 1908, and one more melodrama, An Ideal Husband was staged in 1917. After that year, only his tragedies were repeated whereas his melodramas disappeared in the interwar years, to reappear again in a sudden and noticeable frequency in the late 1930s and early 1940s. The aim of this paper is to identify the reasons of the constant absence of Oscar Wilde’s melodramas from the Greek stage but also to explain their s...

Oscar Wilde’s Contributions to the Improvement of Modern Comedy

2016

Oscar Wilde, in spite of his moral failing that saw him into jail, is somebody whose contributions to the improvement of modern comedy cannot be easily overlooked. This is more so when even in this modern age, his plays are still produced, and they draw attention. Not only that, even in this modern age, they influence writers and film makers. Therefore, in this enquiry the aim of which is to highlight his achievements, his contributions towards the improvement and sustenance of comedy are looked into. What is more, despite his avowed Aesthetic Movement, he uses his art not only to correct the pretensions of the Victorian upper class but to entertain it.

International Graduate Conference in Greek Comedy

Evangelia Keramari, Dimitrios Kanellakis, Eleni Avdoulou, Virginia Mastellari, Almut Fries, Ben Cartlidge, Hans Kopp, Deepti Menon, Robert Machado, Lien Van Geel, Francesco Morosi, Chiara Monaco, Alessandra Migliara, D. David Williams

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