A Florentine tragedy / Oscar Wilde.
| Author/creator |
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 author. |
| Other author/creator | Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 Complete plays. |
| Format | Electronic and Book |
| Publication Info | London : Bloomsbury, [2013] |
| Copyright Notice | ©2013 |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | Drama online |
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| Summary | 'A Florentine Tragedy' is in blank-verse set in the sixteenth century. It tells the story of the illicit love between a burgher's wife, Bianca, and the young heir to the throne of Florence, Guido. Guido has come to the house of the burgher Simone to claim Bianca for his own. Encouraged by her, Guido promises a fortune to Simone in exchange for her hand. Simone, though greedy for the money, is not to be swayed so easily, and a fight to the death ensues. Written in 1894, 'A Florentine Tragedy' exists only as a fragment, often accompanied for the purposes of presentation by an opening scene commissioned from the Irish poet Thomas Sturge Moore by Robert Ross, Wilde's literary executor. Only Oscar Wilde's work is presented here. |
| General note | Previously issued in print: in The complete plays. London, Methuen Drama, 1988. |
| Source of description | Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 21, 2013). |
| Genre/form | Drama. |
| Standard identifier# | 10.5040/9781408182352.00000037 |
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