Dear All,
Per usual, I'll be looking for a clear, interesting, grammatical response (of 300-600 words) to one of the following prompts:
1. Discuss the morality or immorality of one joke (or one short joking dialogue) from the play. (Do discuss something different from what you wrote about in your in-class essay.)
2. Discuss how you think an actor or actress should perform a specific character. Be specific. How should they deliver the lines, dress, and move? You might speculate on what it would be like to have characters perform in drag!
3. Some people believe this is a play that satirizes the immorality of the upper classes, and that one lesson we learn while laughing is that rich people are hypocrites. Some think that Wilde enjoys the fact that rich, fashionable people can get away with anything, and therefore the play itself is immoral. What do you think?
4. Discuss one of the reviews of the play. What does the reviewer value or dislike about the performance? What does the review tell us about the values of Decadent or Victorian culture?
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