Record Number: 18008
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I do not know how many Greek plays you intend publishing, but I have been working at Euripides a good deal lately and should of all things wish to edit either the Mad Hercules or the Phoenissae: plays with which I am well acquainted.'
Century:1850-1899
Date:unknown
Country:unknown
Timen/a
Place:n/a
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:16 Oct 1854
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Writer
Religion:unknown
Country of Origin:Ireland
Country of Experience:unknown
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Hercules Furens
Genre:Classics, Drama
Form of Text:Print: BookUnknown
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:18008
Source:Oscar Wilde
Editor:Merlin Holland
Title:The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde
Place of Publication:New York
Date of Publication:2000
Vol:n/a
Page:78
Additional Comments:
Source is a letter to George Macmillan collected in The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde, eds. Merlin Holland and Rupert Hart-Davis (NY: Henry Holt & Co., 2000)
Citation:
Oscar Wilde, Merlin Holland (ed.), The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde, (New York, 2000), p. 78, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=18008, accessed: 18 April 2025
Additional Comments:
Exactly when Wilde would have read these texts is uncertain, though it is likely to have been at university and in the original Greek.