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Mickle Street: Preview

Next up in Philadelphia’s Oscar Wilde season is Mickle Street

Mickle Street is a new play about the famous meeting of 1882: Oscar Fingal O’fflahertie Wills Wilde and Walt Whitman.

As it happens, the encounter between Wilde and Whitman took place not in Mickle Street, but at the home of Walt’s brother, George, in nearby Stevens Street, two years before Whitman purchased the house in Mickle Street that is now a house museum to his memory.

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Wilde Style

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To accompany the world premiere of the Morrison/Cox opera Oscar in Santa Fe, NM, this adapted excerpt from my book Oscar Wilde On Dress appeared in the Santa Fe New Mexican’s arts magazine Pasatiempo.

http://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/music/classical_music/article_c776936c-f565-11e2-a96f-0019bb30f31a.html

For more on Wilde and dress see:
http://oscarwildeinamerica.org/works/philosophy-of-dress.html

© John Cooper, 2014.