Peter Raby

• Peter Raby

  
  

  "The play moves towards a conclusion where what is concealed and unspoken is more significant than what is revealed"
• Peter Raby

  
  

  "The balance between the witty and the earnest... emerges as Wilde's most taxing dramatic problem"
• Peter Raby

  
  

  "[Lord Darlington's] and his subsequent disappearance... disturb the balance between wit and seriousness"
• Peter Raby

  
  

  The play's action " privately subverts conventional morality, while superficially preserving propriety... exposing the fundamental hypocrisy of social conventions and values"
• Peter Raby

  The play functions as a "concealed critique of contemporary mores"
• Peter Raby (of symbolic props)

  " A play where surface is triumphantly dominant.. which throughout hints at what lies beneath, and repeatedly causes the audience to question what is seen and heard"