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Oscar Wilde and Hubris – Oscar Wilde and the Overcoming of Ambition and Vanity

Notes on Wilde’s life and his posthumous writing De Profundis

The following contributions have been made on the occasion of the Oscar Wilde Conference organised by Marcus Schneider on 31 May/1 June 2008 at the Scala Basel, where the eurythmy ensemble, Eurythmiegruppe Stuttgart, (artistic director: Elisabeth Brinkmann) performed Wilde’s one-act play Salomé. The play was having its première in 1896 at the time when its author was serving his sentence in Reading Gaol. The following presentation has been edited and at some passages expanded.

Thomas Meyer

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