A Florentine Tragedy; La Sainte Courtisane (Esprios Classics)
By Oscar Wilde
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By Oscar Wilde
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La Sainte Courtisane, French for "The Holy Courtesan", is an unfinished play by Oscar Wilde written in 1894. The original draft was left in a taxi cab by the author, and was never completed. It was first published in 1908 by Wilde's literary executor, Robert Ross. It has never been performed, and has been little studied. The play is incomplete. The plot of the existing segment is as follows: Myrrhina is an Alexandrian noblewoman who travels to the mountains to tempt Honorius, a Christian he...






















