ABSTRACT
Oscar Wilde’s play, The Florentine Tragedy, has been given again in London-at the Arts Theatre Club. It is in blank verse, and very poor blank verse. And according to my recollection it is a very poor play. I will go further and say that it has no value whatever. I think that Wilde’s popular vogue is over. In the wide sense of the word he had no popular vogue except a posthumous one. The notion that he received large sums of money for his plays is not based on facts. He made a few thousand pounds out of The Importance of Being Earnest, but the other plays, very inferior, did not do much.
