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[NOTICE FRANÇAISE À LA SUITE]FIRST EDITION.
Who is the enigmatic "Mr. W H." to whom are dedicated Shakespeare's Sonnets published in 1609? Much has been written about the mysterious dedication written by the printer at the time, and many hypotheses are still being discussed today. When he published this first version of the Portrait of Mr. W. H. in 1889, in Blackwood's magazine, Oscar Wilde echoed certain existing theories, and showed that he was perfectly familiar not only with the Elizabethan context of the Sonnets, but with the text of the strange poems in which the great playwright expresses the subtle and passionate flame of a complex love that hides and spreads out in the passage of a verse or a rhyme.
The fact remains that through this little drama with three characters linked around two letters, Wilde does the work of a novelist by staging his own reflections on the art of forgery and lying, which he believes to be at the heart of every work of art. Published a year before The Portrait of… Read More
