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[4 October 1880] Tite Street

My dear Vezin, I send you a copy of my drama which you were kind enough to hear me read some months ago; any suggestions about situations or dialogue I should be so glad to get from such an experienced artist as yourself: I have just found out what a difficult craft playwriting is.

Will you let me tell you what immense pleasure your Iago gave me. It seems to me the most perfect example I have ever seen of that right realism which is founded on consummate art, and sustained by consummate genius: the man Iago walked and talked before us. Two points particularly delighted me – the enormous character you gave to otherwise trivial details: a rare and splendid art, to make all common things symbolic of the leading idea, as Albert [sic] Diirer loved to do in his drawings. The other is your delivery of asides, notably in Act II: I never knew how they ought to be given before – but perhaps you are saying in an aside now ‘Ohé jam satis!’ [well, that’s enough], so believe me your friend and admirer

OSCAR WILDE