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The café was the scene of a famous meeting on 24 March 1895, when Frank Harris advised Oscar Wilde to drop his charge of criminal libel against the Marquess of Queensberry, father of Alfred Douglas. Wilde refused the advice, Queensberry was acquitted, and Wilde was subsequently tried, convicted and imprisoned. [4]
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 and influential playwrights in London in the early 1890s. [3]
1999 saw the publication of Oscar Wilde on Stage and Screen by Robert Tanitch. This book is a comprehensive record of Wilde's life and work as presented on stage and screen from 1880 until 1999. It includes cast lists and snippets of reviews. In 2000 Barbara Belford, a professor at Columbia University, published Oscar Wilde: A Certain Genius.
The Picture of Dorian Gray is a philosophical fiction and gothic horror novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde.A shorter novella-length version was published in the July 1890 issue of the American periodical Lippincott's Monthly Magazine.
The following is an incomplete list of celebrities whose caricatures appear on the celebrity wall at Sardi's restaurant in New York City.All have eaten at Sardi's. The date or year each caricature was added to Sardi's is often mentioned in brackets after the celebrities' name. Also mentioned is either the production the actor was in at the time
Wilde's first West End drawing room play, Lady Windermere's Fan, ran at the St James's Theatre for 197 performances in 1892. [2] He briefly moved away from the genre to write his biblical tragedy Salome, after which he accepted a request from the actor-manager Herbert Beerbohm Tree for a new play for Tree's company at the Haymarket Theatre. [3]
Lillie Langtry in character as the adventuress Lena Despard from the 1887 play As in a Looking-Glass. In 1881, Langtry was in need of money. Her close friend Oscar Wilde suggested she try the stage, and Langtry embarked upon a theatrical career. [71] She first auditioned for an amateur production in the Twickenham Town Hall on 19 November 1881.
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