Kindle Price: $1.99

Save $6.51 (77%)

Promotions apply when you purchase

These promotions will be applied to this item:

Some promotions may be combined; others are not eligible to be combined with other offers. For details, please see the Terms & Conditions associated with these promotions.

eBook features:
  • Highlight, take notes, and search in the book
  • In this edition, page numbers are just like the physical edition
Read with our free app
You've subscribed to ! We will preorder your items within 24 hours of when they become available. When new books are released, we'll charge your default payment method for the lowest price available during the pre-order period.
Update your device or payment method, cancel individual pre-orders or your subscription at
Your Memberships & Subscriptions

Buy for others

Give as a gift or purchase for a team or group.
Learn more

Buying and sending eBooks to others

  1. Select quantity
  2. Buy and send eBooks
  3. Recipients can read on any device

These ebooks can only be redeemed by recipients in the US. Redemption links and eBooks cannot be resold.
Kindle app logo image

Download the free Kindle app and start reading Kindle books instantly on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required.

Read instantly on your browser with Kindle for Web.

Using your mobile phone camera - scan the code below and download the Kindle app.

QR code to download the Kindle App

Amazon book clubs early access
Loading your book clubs
There was a problem loading your book clubs. Please try again.
Not in a club? Learn more
Amazon book clubs early access

Join or create book clubs

Choose books together

Track your books
Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free.
Explore Amazon Book Clubs

Follow the author

Oscar Wilde
Follow
Something went wrong. Please try your request again later.

The Truth of Masks: a Note on Illusion (an essay of dramatic theory) Kindle Edition

by Oscar Wilde (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.7 3.7 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
See all formats and editions
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Truth of Masks: a Note on Illusion (an essay of dramatic theory)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. It is an essay written by Oscar Wilde, first publisched in 1886. "The Truth of Masks" speaks about the power and necessity of illusion in Shakespeare's plays and the importance of the costumes. He goes on and on about it, and then ends the essay with the following statement: "Not that I agree with everything that I have said in this essay. There is much with which I entirely disagree. The essay simply represents an artistic standpoint, and in aesthetic criticism attitude is everything. For in art there is no such thing as a universal truth. A Truth in art is that whose contradictory is also true. And just as it is only in art- criticism, and through it, that we can apprehend the Platonic theory of ideas, so it is only in art-criticism, and through it, that we can realise Hegel's system of contraries. The truths of metaphysics are the truths of masks." Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish poet and dramatist, famous for The Importance of Being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Gray. His controversial, open lifestyle was the reason he was charged and eventually convicted for the crime of sodomy.
Previous page
  1. ISBN-13
    978-1099083273
  2. Sticky notes
    On Kindle Scribe
  3. Publisher
    e-artnow
  4. Publication date
    November 10, 2013
  5. Language
    English
  6. File size
    1599 KB
  7. See all details
Next page

Product details

  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00H7Z48JA
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ e-artnow (November 10, 2013)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 10, 2013
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1599 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 27 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1523225386
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.7 3.7 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

About the author

Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations.
Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.
Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and Magdalen College, Oxford where, a disciple of Pater, he founded an aesthetic cult. In 1884 he married Constance Lloyd, and his two sons were born in 1885 and 1886.

His novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), and social comedies Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893), An Ideal Husband (1895), and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), established his reputation. In 1895, following his libel action against the Marquess of Queesberry, Wilde was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for homosexual conduct, as a result of which he wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), and his confessional letter De Profundis (1905). On his release from prison in 1897 he lived in obscurity in Europe, and died in Paris in 1900.

Customer reviews

3.7 out of 5 stars
3.7 out of 5
3 global ratings

Top review from the United States

Freeman64
2.0 out of 5 stars Interesting but....
Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2020
Verified Purchase
Interesting but not what I was expecting or hoping for. It might be of more interest to anyone studying Shakespeare. I thought that it might be more psychological in nature. I was lead to this assumption by an Oscar Wilde quote: Give a man a mask and he'll tell you the truth. I thought it might be an essay on those illusions (masks) that many use on a daily basis in order to get through life or commit acts of deception.
One person found this helpful
Helpful
 Report
Report an issue

Does this item contain inappropriate content?
Report
Do you believe that this item violates a copyright?
Report
Does this item contain quality or formatting issues?
Report