Name: The Ballad of Reading Gaol (en Inglés)
Price: 14.30 EUR
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Author: Gouveia, Andrea ; Gouveia, Andrea ; Wilde, Oscar
ISBN: 9781545252048

portada The Ballad of Reading Gaol (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Oscar Wilde

Editorial

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.9 x 15.2 x 0.2 cm

Peso

0.06 kg.

ISBN13

9781545252048

Categorías

Irlanda
Reino unido
Poesía
Sociedad y cultura general

The Ballad of Reading Gaol (en Inglés)

Oscar Wilde (Autor) · Createspace Independent Publishing Platform · Tapa Blanda

Libro Físico

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"The Ballad of Reading Gaol" is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile either in Berneval-le-Grand or in Dieppe, France, after his release from Reading Gaol on 19 May 1897. Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading after being convicted of homosexual offences in 1895 and sentenced to two years' hard labour in prison.During his imprisonment, on Tuesday, 7 July 1896, a hanging took place. Charles Thomas Wooldridge had been a trooper in the Royal Horse Guards. He was convicted of cutting the throat of his wife, Laura Ellen, earlier that year at Clewer, near Windsor. He was aged 30 when executed.Wilde spent mid-1897 with Robert Ross in Berneval-le-Grand, where he wrote "The Ballad of Reading Gaol." The poem narrates the execution of Wooldridge; it moves from an objective story-telling to symbolic identification with the prisoners as a whole. No attempt is made to assess the justice of the laws which convicted them, but rather the poem highlights the brutalisation of the punishment that all convicts share. Wilde juxtaposes the executed man and himself with the line "Yet each man kills the thing he loves". Wilde too was separated from his wife and sons. He adopted the proletarian ballad form, and suggested it be published in Reynold's Magazine, "because it circulates widely among the criminal classes - to which I now belong - for once I will be read by my peers - a new experience for me".

Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde es considerado uno de los dramaturgos más destacados del Londres victoriano tardío. Además, fue una celebridad de la época debido a su gran y aguzado ingenio. Hoy en día, es recordado por sus epigramas, sus cuentos, sus obras de teatro, su única novela, El retrato de Dorian Gray, y la tragedia de su encarcelamiento, seguida de su muerte prematura.

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