Which of the two assertions were truly made and which are made up?
A) Arriving in New Mexico, Wilde is recorded as saying, “I have nothing to declare but my genius” - one of the many idioms attributed to him
B) The quality of earnestness, so prized by the Victorians, is shown to be of less importance than Wilde’s affected ironical view which was so widely regarded as flippant
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Which of the two assertions were truly made and which are made up?
A) Arriving in New York, Wilde is recorded as saying, “I have nothing to declare but my bank account” - one of the many idioms attributed to him
B) After his marriage to Constance Lloyd in 1884 he published several books of stories for children, originally written for his own sons. Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime (новелла «Преступление лорда Артура «Севиля» ) appeared shortly before his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) (роман «Портрет Дориана Грея»)
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Which of the two assertions were truly made and which are made up?
A) Both heroes are essentially interchangeable, as are Gwendolen and Cecily, the heroines
B) Gwendolen, daughter of Lord and Lady Bracknell, declares to Jack, the man she apparently hates like hell, “I never change except in my affections, and Lady Bracknell herself, an embodiment of paradox, embraces double-standards
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Which of the two assertions were truly made and which are made up?
A) Gwendolen, daughter of Lord and Lady Bracknell, declares to Jack, the man she apparently loves, “I never change except in my affections, and Lady Bracknell herself, an embodiment of paradox, embraces double-standards
B) Daunting representative of the aristocracy, she was not always such, yet disapproves of anyone else who might take the same route as she did: ”I do not approve of mercenary marriages. When I married Lord Bracknell I had no fortune of any kind. But I never dreamed for a moment of letting that stand in my way.”
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Which of the two assertions were truly made and which are made up?
A) Gwendolen, daughter of Lord and Lady Bracknell, declares to Jack, the man she apparently loves, “I never change except in my affections, and Lady Bracknell herself, an embodiment of paradox, embraces double-standards
B) Relying on the generosity of friends, he went to live in France, adopting the name of Sebastian Melmoth. While here he wrote his famous poem, The Ballad of Reading Gaol («Баллада Редингской тюрьмы»). Wilde died in exile in France in 1900
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Which of the two assertions were truly made and which are made up?
A) Lady Bracknell verges on caricature as do Canon Chasuble and Miss Prism
B) The extreme stupidity of the characters goes well with the absurdity of the action they engage in
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Which of the two assertions were truly made and which are made up?
A) Nothing is sacred, for Wilde’s epigrams show astute social observation, and are directed at such diverse topics as religion, class, education, property, the role of men, philanthropy, food, feminism, and more
B) This philosophy is at the heart of The Importance of Being Earnest
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Which of the two assertions were truly made and which are made up?
A) Of The Importance of Being Honest, his most famous play, Wilde wrote “It is exquisitely trivial, a delicate bubble of fancy, and it has its philosophy ... that we should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.”
B) As in the earlier plays, deception, duplicity, and coincidence prevail here
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