Two unfinished dramatic fragments by Oscar Wilde, published posthumously. A Florentine Tragedy is a one-act play in blank verse set in Renaissance Florence, in which a merchant returns home to find his wife with a nobleman — and the encounter ends in unexpected violence. La Sainte Courtisane is a fragmentary prose poem-play in the symbolist mode, evoking the world of the early Christian desert.
Both pieces are minor but genuinely interesting examples of Wilde’s dramatic experimentation beyond his society comedies. This free EPUB is formatted for any e-reader.