https://smokeandmirrors.cityofsmoke.com Essays on Theater and the Arts Sun, 31 Oct 2010 19:44:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.33 https://smokeandmirrors.cityofsmoke.com/archives/57 Tue, 04 Jul 2000 16:56:38 +0000 http://smokeandmirrors.cityofsmoke.com/?p=57 From New York Press, July 4, 2000 Wilde's plays presented saints who purported to be sinners---or rather good men who liked to pretend to pretend to be bad. For Wilde's protagonists, the affectation of affectation was a moral imperative. On another level, they really were "sinners"---in society's view---if you were hip enough to get the subtext. Continue reading]]>