Episode 41: Matthew Sturgis on Oscar Wilde and Social Mores
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He's Not a Nice Person, Is He?
Stephanie Coontz: I mean, this is not the kind of ummy, witty stephen fry incarnation that we've see on the television and andn the big screen. That i mean, wild. He's snobbish, he's narcisistic. And there's no doubt that as a as he had this sort of moment of extraordinary success in in the early 18 nineties, when he managed to produce four plays in a very short period of time - each one was a huge success.
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