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The first more or less objective biography of Wilde came about when Hesketh Pearson wrote Oscar Wilde: His Life and Wit (1946). [253] In 1954 Wilde's son Vyvyan Holland published his memoir Son of Oscar Wilde, which recounts the difficulties Wilde's wife and children faced after his imprisonment. [254] It was revised and updated by Merlin ...
Italiano: Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) ritratto da Napoleon Sarony nel 1882; nel decennio successivo sarebbe divenuto a Londra uno dei drammaturghi più famosi. È ricordato per i suoi aforismi e commedie, per il romanzo Il ritratto di Dorian Gray e per i procedimenti giudiziari a suo carico, che condussero alla sua condanna ai lavori forzati - secondo la legge del tempo - per palese ...
Company of Thieves' single "Oscar Wilde" was featured on "Gossip Girl: Real NY Stories Revealed" as part of the Dove Go Fresh campaign, [7] as well as being aired during an episode of Gossip Girl. Their second album, Running from a Gamble, was released on May 17, 2011. The lead single, "Death of Communication", was released on March 15, 2011.
The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile in Berneval-le-Grand and Naples, after his release from Reading Gaol (/ r ɛ. d ɪ ŋ. dʒ eɪ l /) on 19 May 1897. Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading after being convicted of gross indecency with other men in 1895 and sentenced to two years' hard labour in prison.
Later, in Oscar Wilde: A Summing Up (1940) and his Autobiography he was more sympathetic to Wilde. An account of the argument between Frank Harris, Lord Alfred Douglas and Oscar Wilde as to the advisability of Wilde's prosecuting Queensberry can be found in the preface to George Bernard Shaw's play The Dark Lady of the Sonnets .
This is a bibliography of works by Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), a late-Victorian Irish writer. Chiefly remembered today as a playwright, especially for The Importance of Being Earnest, and as the author of The Picture of Dorian Gray; Wilde's oeuvre includes criticism, poetry, children's fiction, and a large selection of reviews, lectures and journalism.
[2] [3] In 1952 the story was adapted by Constance Cox into a play Lord Arthur Savile's Crime starring Claude Hulbert. In 1955, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime's formed the basis of the TV series Climax! episode A Promise to Murder. [4] Cox's play was adapted into a 1960 episode of Armchair Theatre on the ITV network in the UK.
Ross called it "an astonishing and ingenious compilation", claiming that in ten minutes of turning the proofs he had learned "more about Wilde's writings than Wilde himself ever knew". [15] In 1920, Millard published his last work on Wilde—Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetic Movement—which dealt with the caricatures of Wilde in the music of the ...