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Oscar Wilde

The Invention of Love

Tom Stoppard

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Gender
Male
Playing Age
Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act Two
Time & Place
The River Styx, Victorian Era
Length
Medium
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)

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Once, I bought a huge armful of lilies in Covent Garden to give to Miss Langtry, and as I waited to put them in a cab, a small boy said to me, “Oh, how rich you are!”

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Then we saw what we had made--the piece of ice in the fist you cannot hold or let go. (He weeps.) You are kind to listen.

Tom Stoppard, The Invention of Love, Grove Press, 1997, pp. 94-95.

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Read a review of The Invention of Love by The New Yorker, including a brief biography of A.E. Housman: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/02/19/lost-horizon

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