Evidence: | 'Wilde's copy of "The Bacchae of Euripides" edited by one of his Trinity tutors, R.Y. Tyrrell, has also survived. On the title-page of the famous play... Wilde wrote "Oscar Wilde T.C.D. Trinity [i.e. summer term], 1872. Clearly intent on acquiring a "minute and critical knowledge" of the text, Wilde underlines countless words and phrases which he then presumably looked up in his lexicon; he frequently glosses lines in the drama with notes such as "C.f. Xenophanes", "C.f. [line] 342"'. |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Apr 1872 and 31 Dec 1874 | ||||||||||
Country: | Ireland | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Dublin | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Oscar Wilde |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 16 Oct 1854 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Writer |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | Ireland |
Country of experience: | Ireland |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Euripides |
Title: | The Bacchae |
Genre: | Classics, Drama |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | ed. R.Y. Tyrrell |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 26289 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Thomas Wright | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Oscar's Books | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 2000 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 62 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Thomas Wright, Oscar's Books (London, 2000), p. 62, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=26289, accessed: 25 April 2024 |
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