La Sainte Courtisane (pronounced , 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. Dramatis Personae • Myrrhina temptress and the "Courtisane" of the title • Honorius, a hermit of the desert who will not look at women • First and Second Man, who talk to Myrrhina, provide exposition about Honorius and talk of the gods they have seen. This unfinished play follows Myrrhina, an Alexandrian noblewoman, who travels to the mountains to tempt Honorius, a Christian hermit, away from goodness with her beauty and wealth. After they talk, he decides to return to sin in Alexandria, while she discovers religion and chooses to remain in the desert. Wilde had begun work on the play in 1894, between writing Salomé and ...
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