The Plays of Oscar Wilde (Wordsworth Classics)

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The essay was later published in "Miscellanies", the final section of the 1908 edition of Wilde's collected works. [53] McDermott & McGough to Open Temple Dedicated to Oscar Wilde in New York's Church of the Village". ArtNews. Archived from the original on 6 August 2020 . Retrieved 28 June 2020. The Decay of Lying" First published in Nineteenth Century (1889), republished in Intentions (1891). Linder, Douglas O. "Testimony of Oscar Wilde on Direct Examination (April 3,1895)". Famous Trials. University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law. Archived from the original on 17 August 2021 . Retrieved 29 November 2020. Though Wilde's health had suffered greatly from the harshness and diet of prison, he had a feeling of spiritual renewal. He immediately wrote to the Society of Jesus requesting a six-month Catholic retreat; when the request was denied, Wilde wept. [210] "I intend to be received into the Catholic Church before long", Wilde told a journalist who asked about his religious intentions. [211]

Oscar Wilde: Gay martyr with complex faith journey honored in art". Q Spirit. 30 November 2019. Archived from the original on 22 June 2020 . Retrieved 28 June 2020. Papers of Robert Ross and Vyvyan Holland relating to the Literary Estate of Oscar Wilde at the Bodleian Library, Oxford McCrum, Robert (24 March 2014). "The 100 best novels: No 27 – The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (1891)". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 12 August 2018 . Retrieved 11 August 2018.Main articles: Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, and An Ideal Husband Lake Windermere in northern England where Wilde began working on his first hit play, Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), during a summer visit in 1891. [142]

Wilde, age forty, had earlier stated he was thirty-nine years old at the beginning of his direct examination by Clarke. When pressed about the lie by Carson, Wilde flippantly replied: "I have no wish to pose as being young. I am thirty-nine or forty. You have my certificate and that settles the matter." [179] Tagliabue, John (16 December 2011). "Walling Off Oscar Wilde's Tomb From Admirers' Kisses". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. ProQuest 1620500886 . Retrieved 1 February 2023. The Last Englishman by Roland Chambers pp 61–69 (2009, Faber and Faber, London) ISBN 978-0-571-22261-2. Death of Oscar Wilde". The New York Times. 1 December 1900. p.1. ISSN 0362-4331. ProQuest 96020365. Archived from the original on 17 September 2018 . Retrieved 1 June 2018. Varty, Anne, ed. (2000). Collected Poems of Oscar Wilde. Ware: Wordsworth Poetry Library. p.vi. ISBN 1853264539. Archived from the original on 3 August 2021 . Retrieved 23 August 2020.A second society comedy, A Woman of No Importance (produced 1893), convinced the critic William Archer that Wilde’s plays “must be taken on the very highest plane of modern English drama.” In rapid succession, Wilde’s final plays, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, were produced early in 1895. In the latter, his greatest achievement, the conventional elements of farce are transformed into satiric epigrams—seemingly trivial but mercilessly exposing Victorian hypocrisies. Wilde was released from prison on 19 May 1897 [208] and sailed that evening for Dieppe, France. [209] He never returned to the United Kingdom.

Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde [a] (16 October 1854–30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and his criminal conviction for gross indecency for homosexual acts. Unsure of his next step, Wilde wrote to various acquaintances enquiring about Classics positions at Oxford or Cambridge. [51] The Rise of Historical Criticism was his submission for the Chancellor's Essay prize of 1879, which, though no longer a student, he was still eligible to enter. Its subject, "Historical Criticism among the Ancients" seemed ready-made for Wilde– with both his skill in composition and ancient learning– but he struggled to find his voice with the long, flat, scholarly style. [52] Unusually, no prize was awarded that year. [52] [b]

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The Philosophy of Dress" First published in The New-York Tribune (1885), published for the first time in book form in Oscar Wilde On Dress (2013). Cox, Devon (2015). The Street of Wonderful Possibilities: Whistler, Wilde & Sargent in Tite Street. London: Frances Lincoln. ISBN 978-0-7112-3673-8. Ross, Alex (1 August 2011). "Deceptive Picture: How Oscar Wilde painted over "Dorian Gray" ". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014 . Retrieved 3 August 2011. The initial vigour and excitement which he brought to the job began to fade as administration, commuting and office life became tedious. [94] At the same time as Wilde's interest flagged, the publishers became concerned anew about circulation: sales, at the relatively high price of one shilling, remained low. [95] Increasingly sending instructions to the magazine by letter, Wilde began a new period of creative work and his own column appeared less regularly. [96] [97] In October 1889, Wilde had finally found his voice in prose and, at the end of the second volume, Wilde left The Woman's World. [98] The magazine outlasted him by only one year. [99]