![]() THE TRUE FUNCTION AND VALUE OF CRITICISM: WITH SOME REMARKS ON THE IMPORTANCE OF DOING NOTHING. ![]() Text upon which this Online Edition is Based: First version, in Fortnightly Review, January 1889. He found critical and popular success with his scintillating plays, chiefly The Importance of Being Earnest, while his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, scandalized readers. Text upon which this Online Edition is Based: “The Decay of Lying: a Dialogue,” in The. The ever-quotable Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet who delighted Victorian England with his legendary wit. Text upon which this Online Edition is Based: “Shakespeare and Stage Costume,” in The. Salomé: A Tragedy in One Act / translated from the French of Oscar Wilde, with illustrations by. Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, and other storiesĬontents: The Happy Prince - The Nightingale and. The Rise of Historical Criticism [published in incomplete form 1905 and completed form in 1908. The Victorians: Gender and Sexuality (lecture)įree public lecture by Professor Sir Richard Evans FBA. Michèle Mendelssohn's book Making Oscar Wilde reveals the untold story of young Oscar’s career. Michèle Mendelssohn gives a TORCH bite-size talk at the Ashmolean Museum's DEADFriday event In this Open Day taster lecture, Sos Eltis explores the complex causes which motivated Oscar. Michèle Mendelssohn, Sos Eltis, Hermione Lee, Charles Fosterīrilliant Paradoxes and Corrosive Epigrams or Why Oscar Wilde Went to Trial Sandra Mayer, Mary Luckhurst, Dominic Janes, Stefano EvangelistaĪ Book at Lunchtime seminar with Michele Mendelssohn, literary critic and cultural historian. Oscar Wilde in Vienna: Pleasing and Teasing the AudienceĪ joint event hosted by the Theatre Studies and Queer Studies Networks. In this TORCH Book at Lunchtime event, co-editors Laura Marcus (Oxford) and Kirsten Shepherd. In his final year Wilde won Trinity College's highest academic award in Greek, the Berkeley Gold Medal, and received a demyship to study Greats and Classics at Magdalen College, Oxford. Mahaffy, whom Wilde called his 'first and best teacher', would later inspire Wilde's character Prince Paul Maraloffski in Vera. Oscar Wilde, Richard Allen Cave (Commentary) 4.23 avg rating 49,545 ratings published 1898 79 editions. The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays. By the time he finished school in 1871, Wilde had won a scholarship to Trinity College, Dublin, where he studied classics with John Pentland Mahaffy and Robert Yelverton Turrell. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. In February 1867 Oscar's little sister Isola died, and he carried a lock of her hair thereafter. His mother, Jane Francesca Wilde, was an Irish nationalist, a poet who published under the pseudonym 'Speranza', and the centre of a literary salon. His father, Sir William Wilde, was Ireland's best oto-optamologic, knighted for medical services, and collector and publisher of Irish folklore. Oscar Fingal O'Flahterie Wilde was born in Dublin on 16 October, 1854, the second of three children. He was a daunting wit, a committed aesthete, and remains a lasting icon. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was a playwright, poet, novelist, story-writer, journalist, essayist, epigrammist, father, husband, and convicted homosexual. "To live is the rarest thing in the world.
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