While I am not a performer at heart or in skill, I have been thinking a lot about Oscar Wilde lately. I decided to do a reading of "The Master." I am currently working on a philosophical project, examining his ideas of art and life as art.
From the video description:
Oscar Wilde often wrote about and compared himself to Jesus of Nazareth. "The Master" is his most audacious expression of this pattern, which was enabled by the equally audacious The Life of Jesus, by Ernest Renan. Renan's book, published in 1863, was one of the earliest and most prominent attempts to think of Jesus not as God incarnate, but as a philosopher and a man. Not since the Ebionites had this been a common opinion in Christian communities, but Wilde embraced this new way of thinking of the Nazarene.
If Jesus was a man, couldn't Wilde be God?
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