Monstrous martyrdoms : 3 plays / by Eric Bentley.
TITLE:
Monstrous martyrdoms : 3 plays / by Eric Bentley.
Alternate Title:
Monstrous martyrdoms : three plays
Publication Date:
1985
Publication Information:
Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books,
Physical Description:
248 p.
Geographic Term:
Contents:
Lord Alfred's lover -- H for Hamlet -- German requiem.
Summary:
"The road will be red with monstrous martyrdoms, but we shall win." Oscar Wilde wrote these words at the end of the nineteenth century after serving two years at hard labor for the crime of being homosexual. This modern martyrdom is the subject of Lord Alfred's Lover, Eric Bentley's Brechtian dramatization of Wilde's last days.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780879752873
