An Ideal Husband

Oscar Wilde

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Suggestions for Further Reading

Cohen, Ed. Talk on the Wilde Side: Towards a Genealogy of a Discourse on Male Sexualities. New York: Routledge, 1993.

Dellamora, Richard. "Oscar Wilde, Social Purity, and An Ideal Husband." Modern Drama. thirty-seven(1):120–38. 1994 Spring. Downsview, ON, Canada.

Ellman, Richard. Wilde and the Nineties. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1966.

Gide, Andre. Oscar Wilde: a study. Trans. Lucy Gordon. New York: Gordon Press, 1975.

Kohl, Stefan. "The Aesthetics of the Expressionless Face: Representation of Authority in Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband." In Word and Action in Drama: Studies in Honour of Hans-Jurgen Diller on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday. Eds. Ahrends, Gunter et al. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher. 107–17. 1994.

Jacobs, Susan Taylor. "When Formula Seizes Form: Oscar Wilde's Comedies." In Staging the Impossible: The Fantastic Mode in Modern Drama. Ed. Patrick Murphy. Westport, CT: Greenwood. 1992. 15–29.

Mikhail, E. H., ed. Oscar Wilde: Interviews and Recollections, vols. I and II. New York: Harper & Row, Inc., 1979.

Pine, Richard. "Oscar Wilde." In The Dandy and the Herald. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988.

Powell, Kerry. Oscar Wilde and the Theatre of the 1890s. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Stokes, John. "Wilde Interpretations." Modern Drama. thirty-seven(1):156–74. 1994 Spring. Downsview, ON, Canada.

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