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Marie Prescott
Kevin Lane Dearinger
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Description for Marie Prescott
Hardback. Num Pages: 315 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 164 x 22. Weight in Grams: 585.
This book documents the life and career of Marie Prescott (1850–93), an actress of great beauty and wit, who directed and starred in Oscar Wilde's first play, Vera, or the Nihilists. Like Wilde, Prescott struggled to reconcile her artistic aspirations with her financial goals and to assert her independence from the social restraints of her day; she also had a complicated love life. Her compelling story is marked by the sensational elements of opening nights, vengeful critics, bitter feuds, insanity, missing persons, lawsuits, divorces, and sexual obsession. In all of this, Marie Prescott remained a figure of impressive intellect and ... Read more
This book documents the life and career of Marie Prescott (1850–93), an actress of great beauty and wit, who directed and starred in Oscar Wilde's first play, Vera, or the Nihilists. Like Wilde, Prescott struggled to reconcile her artistic aspirations with her financial goals and to assert her independence from the social restraints of her day; she also had a complicated love life. Her compelling story is marked by the sensational elements of opening nights, vengeful critics, bitter feuds, insanity, missing persons, lawsuits, divorces, and sexual obsession. In all of this, Marie Prescott remained a figure of impressive intellect and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
315
Condition
New
Number of Pages
315
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611474176
SKU
V9781611474176
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Ref
99-15
About Kevin Lane Dearinger
Kevin Lane Dearinger teaches English at the Browning School in New York City.
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