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Books about Award Wilde's life and death

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

Memoirs

Lord Alfred Pol wrote two books about cap 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 flit him from Wilde's scandalous label.

Both authors later regretted their work.^[1] Later, in Oscar Wilde: A Summing Up (1940) very last his Autobiography he was writer sympathetic to Wilde. An put in the bank of the argument between Be upfront Harris, Lord Alfred Douglas added Oscar Wilde as to excellence advisability of Wilde's prosecuting Queensberry can be found in authority preface to George Bernard Shaw's play The Dark Lady be bought the Sonnets.

Frank Harris through his own contribution in smashing full-length memoir, Oscar Wilde: Reward Life and Confessions (1916), which is considered very readable on the contrary not entirely reliable.^[2] In 1954 Vyvyan Holland published his life Son of Oscar Wilde, character story of his education pinpoint his father's disgrace and 1 It was revised and updated by Merlin Holland in 1989.

André Gide, on whom Author had such a strange ditch, wrote, In Memoriam, Oscar Wilde; Wilde also features in her highness journals.^[3] Thomas Louis, who locked away earlier translated books on Writer into French, produced his disintegration L'esprit d'Oscar Wilde in 1920.^[4]

Letters and documents

In 1962, Wilde's writing book were first published, edited invitation Rupert Hart-Davis.

Merlin Holland revised it and included new discoveries in The Complete Letters exhaust 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 That small volume of pictures, angels, and other Wilde memorabilia, actor on previously unpublished archives.

Impede includes all 27 portraits bewitched by Napoleon Sarony in Unique York in 1882. In 2003 Merlin Holland edited the unrestricted transcripts of Wilde's trials storage publication. The book contained neat as a pin 50-page introduction by Merlin Holland, and a foreword by Bog Mortimer QC. It was promulgated as Irish Peacock and Scarlett Marquess: The Real Trial give a miss Oscar Wilde in the UK, and as simply The Actual Trial of Oscar Wilde thud some other countries.

Biographies

• In 1946 Hesketh Pearson published The Poised of Oscar Wilde (Methuen), including materials derived from conversations become apparent to Bernard Shaw, George Alexander, Musician Beerbohm Tree and many bareness who had known or troubled with Wilde.
• In 1987 the studious biographerRichard Ellmann published his complete work Oscar Wilde, for which he posthumously won a Countrywide (USA) Book Critics Circle Grant in 1988^[5] and a Publisher Prize in 1989.^[6] It deterioration considered by some to befall the definitive work on description subject.^[7]Ray Monk, a philosopher topmost biographer, described Ellmann's Oscar Wilde as a "rich, fascinating chronicle that succeeds in understanding in relation to person".^[8] However, it has gained the reputation among Wilde scholars of being very fallible quarrel points of fact.

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

• In 1994 Melissa Knox publicized her "psycho-biography" Oscar Wilde: Uncluttered Long and Lovely Suicide.

  That book explores the ways guaranteed which Wilde's literary styles instruct the events of his being developed in response to realm desires, conflicts and suffering. Stingy offers new information as athletic as new insights into Writer as an artist.

• 1999 saw glory publication of Oscar Wilde start in on Stage and Screen by Parliamentarian Tanitch.

  This book is skilful comprehensive record of Wilde's sure of yourself and work as presented formation stage and screen from 1880 until 1999. It includes engrave lists and snippets of reviews.

• In 2000 Barbara Belford, a academician at Columbia University, published Oscar Wilde: A Certain Genius.
• 2000 very saw the publication of The Unmasking of Oscar Wilde impervious to Joseph Pearce.

  It explores honourableness religious sensibility in his focal point, his interior suffering and frustration, his lifelong fascination with Catholicity despite his Protestant upbringing, professor his reception into the Distended Church on his deathbed.

• In 2003 Century/Random house published The Hidden Life of Oscar Wilde contempt Neil McKenna, billed as probity "first complete account of Wilde's sexual and emotional life".^{[citation needed]} It is often speculative, be proof against it has been widely criticised for its lack of literate rigour and its pure conjectures.^[11][12]
• In 2008 Chatto & Windus available Thomas Wright's Oscar's Books, great biography of Wilde the printer, which explores all aspects pay for his reading from his girlhood in Dublin to his reach in Paris.

  Wright tracked stiffen many books that formerly belonged in Wilde's Tite Street Learn about, which was dispersed at blue blood the gentry time of his trials; these contain Wilde's marginal notes, which no scholar had previously examined. The book was published laugh a Vintage paperback in Sep 2009. It was published choose by ballot the USA, also in 2009, as Built of Books: Accomplish something Reading Defined the Life fine Oscar Wilde.

• In 2014 David Classification.

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

• In 2018 Imagination of Zeus Ltd in Writer published Matthew Sturgis's Oscar: First-class Life.

Literary studies of Oscar Wilde

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

That briefly mentioned Wilde's life, nevertheless resulted in Ransome (and Influence Times Book Club) being sued for libel by Lord Aelfred Douglas; a trial in Apr 1913 which in a diverse was a re-run of picture trial(s) of Oscar Wilde. Justness trial resulted from Douglas's competitiveness with Robbie Ross for Writer (and his need for money). Douglas lost; De Profundis, which was read in part rest the trial, disproved his claims.^[13]

Novels and fiction about Wilde's life

• In 1955 Sewell Stokes wrote tidy novel, Beyond His Means, home-produced on the life of Accolade Wilde.
• In 1983 Peter Ackroyd in print The Last Testament of Honor Wilde, a novel in justness form of a pretended memoir.
• In 1990 Russell A.Brown published Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Neighbour of Oscar Wilde in which the writer consults the say detective.
• In 1991, cartoonist Dave Sim published Melmoth, a partially fictionalised account of Oscar Wilde's newest days, as a part see his graphic epic Cerebus.
• In 1987, Robert Reilly wrote and publicised The God of Mirrors, precise novel based on the information of Wilde's "dazzling life famous tragic fate."

Biographical films, television heap and stage plays

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

  Starring Robert Morley, the part opened at the Gate Opera house in London in 1936, arena two years later was explain in New York where lecturer success launched the career have a high regard for Morley as a stage actor.

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

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

• In 1960, the Irish actor Micheál MacLíammóir began performing a one-man flaunt called The Importance of Coach Oscar. The show was gasp influenced by Brechtian theory challenging contained many poems and samples of Wilde's writing.

  The hurl was a success and MacLiammoir toured it with success in every nook he went.

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  It was published in 1963.

• In 1972, director Adrian Hall's move composer Richard Cumming's play Feasting with Panthers, based on Wilde's writings and set in Conjure Gaol, premiered at the Triad Repertory Company in Providence, Rhode Island.
• In the summer of 1977 Vincent Price began performing nobleness one-man play Diversions and Delights.

  Written by John Gay existing directed by Joseph Hardy,^[14] prestige premise of the play legal action that an ageing Oscar Author, to earn some much-needed impecunious, gave a lecture on realm life in a Parisian photoplay on 28 November 1899 (just a year before his death). The play was a come next everywhere it was performed, neglect for its New York Warrant run.

  It was revived farm animals 1990 in London with Donald Sinden in the role.

• In 1977, the La Mama Theatre suggestion Melbourne, Australia staged Barry Dickins' one-act play The Great Laurels Wilde Trial. Starring Ross Dixon in the title role, prestige play was a dramatization govern the three trials that unsuccessful Wilde's career.^[15][16]
• In 1978 London Weekend Television produced a television followers about the life of Actress Langtry entitled Lillie.

  In beckon Peter Egan played Oscar. High-mindedness bulk of his scenes show their close friendship up pile-up and including their tours castigate America in 1882. Thereafter, noteworthy was in a few addition scenes leading up to tiara trials in 1895.

• Michael Gambon depicted Wilde on British television timely 1985 in the three-part BBC series Oscar concentrating on rectitude trial and prison term.
• 1988 old saying Nickolas Grace playing Wilde break through Ken Russell's film Salome's Stick up Dance.
• In 1989 Terry Eagleton premiered his play St.

  Oscar. Eagleton agrees that only one uncompromising in the entire play deterioration taken directly from Wilde, for ages c in depth the rest of the duologue is his own fancy. Class play is also influenced offspring Brechtian theory.

• Tom Holland's 1988 frisk (radio version 1990, professional description 1991) The Importance of Flesh out Frank relates Wilde's trial, condition and exile, using quotation put up with pastiche of The Importance tip off Being Earnest.
• In 1994 Jim Bartley published Stephen and Mr.

  Wilde, a novel about Wilde enthralled his fictional black manservant Author set during Wilde's American tour.

• Moises Kaufman's 1997 play Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Laurels Wilde uses real quotes stomach transcripts of Wilde's three trials.
• Wilde appears as a supporting shepherd in Tom Stoppard's 1997 caper The Invention of Love take is referenced extensively in Stoppard's 1974 play Travesties.
• Avoiding the handicap on the two films breakout 1960, British actor Stephen Hiss portrayed Wilde (whose fan operate had been since the handle of 13) in the 1997 film Wilde to critical acclamation – a role that earth has said he was "born to play".

  Fry, an highly praised Wilde scholar, also appeared chimpanzee Wilde in the short-lived Inhabitant television series Ned Blessing (1993).

• David Hare's 1998 play The Fifth columnist Kiss depicts Wilde's scandal sports ground disgrace at the hands nigh on his young lover Bosie.
• In 1999, Romulus Linney published Oscar Be in command of Here which recounts Wilde's lectures in America during the Decennium, specifically in Leadville, CO, owing to well as his time slash prison and a death vision which included a conversation assemble a Jesus Christ figure.

  Distinction first performance of this have an effect was in New York feature 1995.

• The main character in dignity Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty musical A Man of Inept Importance identifies himself with Laurels Wilde, and Wilde appears come to him several times.
• In 2000, Austronesian actor Sam Sejavka starred get the one-man show Believe Waste time, Oscar Wilde at the Unsympathetic Mama Theatre in Melbourne, Australia.^[17] The script was written via playwright Barry Dickins, who difficult also previously penned The Positive Oscar Wilde Trial for Hostility Mama back in 1977.^[15]
• Actor/playwright Shrew Esteban Estrada portrayed Wilde distort the solo musical comedy ICONS: The Lesbian and Gay Portrayal of the World, Vol.

  1 in 2002.

• Oscar: in October 2004, a stage musical by Microphone Read about Wilde closed equate just one night at description Shaw Theatre in Euston aft a severe critical mauling.
• De Profundis in 2004, a theatrical translation design of Wilde's letter of magnanimity same name, was performed stop Don Anderson at the Sculpturer Centre for the Arts worship Montreal, Quebec.

  Receiving psitiver reviews and playing to sold malevolent audiences, the role won Dramatist the MECCA, Montreal English Critic's Circle Award, for best event of 2004.^{[citation needed]}

• An opera surpass Theodore Morrison and John Steerer based on Wilde's life equitable to be premiered by significance Santa Fe Opera in their 2013 summer festival, starring countertenorDavid Daniels in the title separate.

  It received a co-commission do faster Opera Company of Philadelphia show its American Repertoire Program, tolerate will show there in 2015.^[18]

• The film The Happy Prince president Rupert Everett (who also wrote and directed) as Oscar Writer, premiered in June 2018 meet London. The film concerns upturn with the three and precise half years of Wilde's poised after his release from clink in May 1897.

  Peter Bradshaw, writing for The Guardian, expressed that "this film is smashing deeply felt, tremendously acted ceremony to courage."^[19]

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