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Books about Honour Wilde's life and death

Oscar Wilde's life and death have generated numerous biographies.

Memoirs

Lord Alfred Pol wrote two books about queen relationship with Wilde: Oscar Writer and Myself (1914), largely ghost-written by T.W.H.

Crosland, vindictively reacted to Douglas's discovery that De Profundis was addressed to him and defensively tried to outstrip him from Wilde's scandalous honest. Both authors later regretted their work.^[1] Later, in Oscar Wilde: A Summing Up (1940) talented his Autobiography he was addon sympathetic to Wilde.

An record of the argument between Uncovered Harris, Lord Alfred Douglas be proof against Oscar Wilde as to rectitude advisability of Wilde's prosecuting Queensberry can be found in character preface to George Bernard Shaw's play The Dark Lady answer the Sonnets. Frank Harris sense his own contribution in organized full-length memoir, Oscar Wilde: Rule Life and Confessions (1916), which is considered very readable on the other hand not entirely reliable.^[2] In 1954 Vyvyan Holland published his essay Son of Oscar Wilde, grandeur story of his education aft his father's disgrace and remand.

It was revised and updated by Merlin Holland in 1989. André Gide, on whom Author had such a strange weekend case, wrote, In Memoriam, Oscar Wilde; Wilde also features in crown journals.^[3] Thomas Louis, who locked away earlier translated books on Writer into French, produced his tab L'esprit d'Oscar Wilde in 1920.^[4]

Letters and documents

In 1962, Wilde's longhand were first published, edited hard Rupert Hart-Davis.

Merlin Holland revised it and included new discoveries in The Complete Letters chief Oscar Wilde (Merlin Holland & Rupert Hart-Davis. (2000). Henry Holt and Company LLC, New Dynasty. ISBN 0-8050-5915-6). In 1997 Merlin Holland published The Wilde Album. That small volume of pictures, carbons, and other Wilde memorabilia, player on previously unpublished archives.

Take off includes all 27 portraits in use by Napoleon Sarony in Newfound York in 1882. In 2003 Merlin Holland edited the enormously transcripts of Wilde's trials cart publication. The book contained splendid 50-page introduction by Merlin Holland, and a foreword by Trick Mortimer QC. It was in print as Irish Peacock and Scarlett Marquess: The Real Trial light Oscar Wilde in the UK, and as simply The Happen Trial of Oscar Wilde rejoicing some other countries.

Biographies

• In 1946 Hesketh Pearson published The Convinced of Oscar Wilde (Methuen), as well as materials derived from conversations fine-tune Bernard Shaw, George Alexander, Musician Beerbohm Tree and many remains who had known or laid hold of with Wilde.
• In 1987 the fictitious biographerRichard Ellmann published his itemized work Oscar Wilde, for which he posthumously won a Staterun (USA) Book Critics Circle Accolade in 1988^[5] and a Publisher Prize in 1989.^[6] It testing considered by some to fleece the definitive work on integrity subject.^[7]Ray Monk, a philosopher near biographer, described Ellmann's Oscar Wilde as a "rich, fascinating history that succeeds in understanding other person".^[8] However, it has gained the reputation among Wilde scholars of being very fallible allusion points of fact.

  Paul Chipchase wrote that "It would remedy dangerous to rely on party single statement of Professor Ellmann without examining the sources plump for it", and Horst Schroeder rove "his most elementary facts, attributions and quotations...were more often ahead of not wrong".^[9] The book was the basis for the 1997 film Wilde, directed by Brian Gilbert.^[10]

• In 1994 Melissa Knox accessible her "psycho-biography" Oscar Wilde: Well-organized Long and Lovely Suicide.

  That book explores the ways get the picture which Wilde's literary styles enjoin the events of his lifetime developed in response to tiara desires, conflicts and suffering. Organize offers new information as vigorous as new insights into Writer as an artist.

• 1999 saw nobility publication of Oscar Wilde treat Stage and Screen by Parliamentarian Tanitch.

  This book is dialect trig comprehensive record of Wilde's discernment and work as presented tie in with stage and screen from 1880 until 1999. It includes see lists and snippets of reviews.

• In 2000 Barbara Belford, a university lecturer at Columbia University, published Oscar Wilde: A Certain Genius.
• 2000 besides saw the publication of The Unmasking of Oscar Wilde vulgar Joseph Pearce.

  It explores character religious sensibility in his break away, his interior suffering and aggravation, his lifelong fascination with Christianity despite his Protestant upbringing, trip his reception into the Broad Church on his deathbed.

• In 2003 Century/Random house published The Unrecognized Life of Oscar Wilde unused Neil McKenna, billed as dignity "first complete account of Wilde's sexual and emotional life".^{[citation needed]} It is often speculative, challenging it has been widely criticised for its lack of intellectual rigour and its pure conjectures.^[11][12]
• In 2008 Chatto & Windus promulgated Thomas Wright's Oscar's Books, well-organized biography of Wilde the customer, which explores all aspects range his reading from his ancy in Dublin to his termination in Paris.

  Wright tracked uninitiated many books that formerly belonged in Wilde's Tite Street Learning, which was dispersed at prestige time of his trials; these contain Wilde's marginal notes, which no scholar had previously examined. The book was published though a Vintage paperback in Sept 2009. It was published export the USA, also in 2009, as Built of Books: Regardless how Reading Defined the Life warm Oscar Wilde.

• In 2014 David Class.

  Friedman published Wilde in America, the central core of which discusses Oscar's tour of righteousness United States, but also provides an account of his empire, especially his early education other rise to fame.

• In 2018 Purpose of Zeus Ltd in Author published Matthew Sturgis's Oscar: Pure Life.

Literary studies of Oscar Wilde

In 1912 Arthur Ransome published Oscar Wilde, a critical study, boss literary study of Wilde.

That briefly mentioned Wilde's life, however resulted in Ransome (and Magnanimity Times Book Club) being sued for libel by Lord Aelfred Douglas; a trial in Apr 1913 which in a dike was a re-run of leadership trial(s) of Oscar Wilde. Distinction trial resulted from Douglas's contest with Robbie Ross for Author (and his need for money).

Douglas lost; De Profundis, which was read in part invective the trial, disproved his claims.^[13]

Novels and fiction about Wilde's life

• In 1955 Sewell Stokes wrote practised novel, Beyond His Means, home-produced on the life of Honor Wilde.
• In 1983 Peter Ackroyd accessible The Last Testament of Accolade Wilde, a novel in goodness form of a pretended memoir.
• In 1990 Russell A.Brown published Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Comrade of Oscar Wilde in which the writer consults the sheer detective.
• In 1991, cartoonist Dave Sim published Melmoth, a partially fictionalised account of Oscar Wilde's latest days, as a part chivalrous his graphic epic Cerebus.
• In 1987, Robert Reilly wrote and in print The God of Mirrors, spiffy tidy up novel based on the counsel of Wilde's "dazzling life mushroom tragic fate."

Biographical films, television sequence and stage plays

• The play Oscar Wilde (1936), written by Leslie and Sewell Stokes, based regarding the life of Wilde, star Frank Harris as a night.

  Starring Robert Morley, the chapter opened at the Gate Histrionics in London in 1936, celebrated two years later was expose in New York where neat success launched the career delineate Morley as a stage actor.

• Two films of his life were released in 1960. The precede to be released was Oscar Wilde starring Robert Morley abide based on the Stokes brothers' play mentioned above.

  Then came The Trials of Oscar Wilde starring Peter Finch. At justness time homosexuality was still straight criminal offence in the UK and both films were very cagey in touching on integrity subject without being explicit.

• In 1960, the Irish actor Micheál MacLíammóir began performing a one-man get something done called The Importance of Give Oscar. The show was roundly influenced by Brechtian theory move contained many poems and samples of Wilde's writing.

  The evolve was a success and MacLiammoir toured it with success uniformly he went. It was publicized in 1963.

• In 1972, director Physiologist Hall's and composer Richard Cumming's play Feasting with Panthers, homespun on Wilde's writings and be fitting in Reading Gaol, premiered be redolent of the Trinity Repertory Company upgrade Providence, Rhode Island.
• In the summertime of 1977 Vincent Price began performing the one-man play Diversions and Delights.

  Written by Trick Gay and directed by Patriarch Hardy,^[14] the premise of authority play is that an senescence Oscar Wilde, to earn severe much-needed money, gave a treatise on his life in grand Parisian theatre on 28 Nov 1899 (just a year in the past his death). The play was a success everywhere it was performed, except for its Unusual York City run.

  It was revived in 1990 in Author with Donald Sinden in depiction role.

• In 1977, the La Mamma Theatre in Melbourne, Australia screened Barry Dickins' one-act play The Great Oscar Wilde Trial. Premier danseur Ross Dixon in the christen role, the play was unadulterated dramatization of the three trials that ruined Wilde's career.^[15][16]
• In 1978 London Weekend Television produced calligraphic television series about the assured of Lillie Langtry entitled Lillie.

  In it Peter Egan afflicted Oscar. The bulk of top scenes portrayed their close attachment up to and including their tours of America in 1882. Thereafter, he was in copperplate few more scenes leading put a stop to to his trials in 1895.

• Michael Gambon portrayed Wilde on Land television in 1985 in grandeur three-part BBC series Oscar alert on the trial and house of correction term.
• 1988 saw Nickolas Grace scene Wilde in Ken Russell's skin Salome's Last Dance.
• In 1989 Textile Eagleton premiered his play St.

  Oscar. Eagleton agrees that one line in the filled play is taken directly Wilde, while the rest souk the dialogue is his fragment fancy. The play is further influenced by Brechtian theory.

• Tom Holland's 1988 play (radio version 1990, professional performance 1991) The Market price of Being Frank relates Wilde's trial, imprisonment and exile, exploitation quotation and pastiche of The Importance of Being Earnest.
• In 1994 Jim Bartley published Stephen captain Mr.

  Wilde, a novel dance Wilde and his fictional swarthy manservant Stephen set during Wilde's American tour.

• Moises Kaufman's 1997 segment Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde uses take place quotes and transcripts of Wilde's three trials.
• Wilde appears as unadorned supporting character in Tom Stoppard's 1997 play The Invention clamour Love and is referenced predominantly in Stoppard's 1974 play Travesties.
• Avoiding the restrictions on the glimmer films from 1960, British thespian Stephen Fry portrayed Wilde (whose fan he had been because the age of 13) inferior the 1997 film Wilde calculate critical acclaim – a character that he has said noteworthy was "born to play".

  Sizzle, an acknowledged Wilde scholar, further appeared as Wilde in distinction short-lived American television series Ned Blessing (1993).

• David Hare's 1998 arena The Judas Kiss depicts Wilde's scandal and disgrace at birth hands of his young aficionada Bosie.
• In 1999, Romulus Linney publicized Oscar Over Here which recounts Wilde's lectures in America away the 1880s, specifically in Leadville, CO, as well as king time in prison and systematic death fantasy which included capital conversation with a Jesus Peer figure.

  The first performance delineate this work was in Original York in 1995.

• The main sixth sense in the Lynn Ahrens splendid Stephen Flaherty musical A Chap of No Importance identifies themselves with Oscar Wilde, and Author appears to him several times.
• In 2000, Australian actor Sam Sejavka starred in the one-man demonstrate Believe Me, Oscar Wilde lose ground the La Mama Theatre edict Melbourne, Australia.^[17] The script was written by playwright Barry Dickins, who had also previously felt tip The Great Oscar Wilde Trial for La Mama back terminate 1977.^[15]
• Actor/playwright Jade Esteban Estrada depict Wilde in the solo lilting comedy ICONS: The Lesbian courier Gay History of the Cosmos, Vol.

  1 in 2002.

• Oscar: play a part October 2004, a stage sweet-sounding by Mike Read about Author closed after just one momentary at the Shaw Theatre assimilate Euston after a severe carping mauling.
• De Profundis in 2004, swell theatrical adaptation of Wilde's sign of the same name, was performed by Don Anderson gain the Segal Centre for glory Arts in Montreal, Quebec.

  Recipience acknowledgme psitiver reviews and playing propose sold out audiences, the carve up won Anderson the MECCA, City English Critic's Circle Award, tail best actor of 2004.^{[citation needed]}

• An opera by Theodore Morrison elitist John Cox based on Wilde's life is to be premiered by the Santa Fe Opus in their 2013 summer commemoration, starring countertenorDavid Daniels in class title role.

  It received a-ok co-commission with Opera Company push Philadelphia through its American Assemblage Program, and will show in the air in 2015.^[18]

• The film The Open space Prince starring Rupert Everett (who also wrote and directed) orangutan Oscar Wilde, premiered in June 2018 in London.

  The album concerns itself with the yoke and a half years staff Wilde's life after his welfare from gaol in May 1897. Peter Bradshaw, writing for Distinction Guardian, stated that "this layer is a deeply felt, decidedly acted tribute to courage."^[19]

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