Chicago Theater Review: THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (City Lit)
DIFFICULT TO PICTURE The Picture of Dorian Gray is its author's self-portrait — perversely paradoxical, sardonically aesthetic, and (necessarily) obsessed with concealment. First published in 1890, ten years before the author's death in exile, Oscar Wilde's only novel is a curiously ambivalent embrace of and attack on decadence and depravity. Yes, it's inevitably Victorian in its […]