A Florentine Tragedy and La Sainte Courtisane: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
A Florentine Tragedy and La Sainte Courtisane by Oscar Wilde: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 3 original MP3 tracks, 56:00 running time and a link to listen.
A Florentine Tragedy and La Sainte Courtisane, credited to Oscar Wilde, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox dramatic recording of A Florentine Tragedy and La Sainte Courtisane, by Oscar Wilde. Includes an introduction by Robert Ross. Two short fragments: an unfinished and a lost play. A Florentine Tragedy, left in a taxi (not a handbag), is Wilde’s most successful attempt at tragedy – intense and domestic, with surprising depth of characterisation. It was adapted into an opera by the Austrian composer Alexander Zemlinsky in 1917. La Sainte Courtisane, or The Woman Covered in Jewels explores one of Wilde’s great idées fixes: the paradox of religious hedonism, pagan piety. Both plays, Wildean to their core, revel in the profound sadness that is the fruit of the conflict between fidelity and forbidden love. Written towards the end of his tragic life, these fragments give us a glimpse of a genius at his best: visceral, passionate, personal, poetic. (Summary by Simon Larois)
Recording facts
- Recording title: A Florentine Tragedy and La Sainte Courtisane
- Author credits: Oscar Wilde
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 3
- Listed recording duration: 56:00
Catalogue topics
- Wilde
- drama
- play
- Ross
Track guide
- 0 - Preface to the Collected Plays of Oscar Wilde — 15:29
- 1 - A Florentine Tragedy — 25:49
- 2 - La Sainte Courtisane, or The Woman Covered with Jewels — 14:44
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