The Plays of Oscar Wilde (Wordsworth Classics)

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Lezard, Nicholas (29 March 2003). "Oscar Wilde's other portrait". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 29 June 2013 . Retrieved 14 April 2010. Preface". The Picture of Dorian Gray. From Project Gutenberg transcription. October 1994. Archived from the original on 6 November 2019 . Retrieved 30 August 2010. Douglas soon initiated Wilde into the Victorian underground of gay prostitution, and Wilde was introduced to a series of young working-class male prostitutes ( rent boys) from 1892 onwards by Alfred Taylor. These infrequent rendezvous usually took the same form: Wilde would meet the boy, offer him gifts, dine him privately and then take him to a hotel room. Unlike Wilde's idealised relations with Ross, John Gray, and Douglas, all of whom remained part of his aesthetic circle, these consorts were uneducated and knew nothing of literature. Soon his public and private lives had become sharply divided; in De Profundis he wrote to Douglas that "It was like feasting with panthers; the danger was half the excitement... I did not know that when they were to strike at me it was to be at another's piping and at another's pay." [151] Wilde left Portora with a royal scholarship to read classics at Trinity College, Dublin (TCD), from 1871 to 1874, [26] sharing rooms with his older brother Willie Wilde. Trinity, one of the leading classical schools, placed him with scholars such as R. Y. Tyrell, Arthur Palmer, Edward Dowden and his tutor, Professor J. P. Mahaffy, who inspired his interest in Greek literature. As a student Wilde worked with Mahaffy on the latter's book Social Life in Greece. [27] Wilde, despite later reservations, called Mahaffy "my first and best teacher" and "the scholar who showed me how to love Greek things". [23] For his part, Mahaffy boasted of having created Wilde; later, he said Wilde was "the only blot on my tutorship". [28] Literary Encyclopedia – Oscar Wilde". Litencyc.com. 25 January 2001. Archived from the original on 3 April 2019 . Retrieved 3 April 2009.

Linder, Douglas O. "Testimony of Oscar Wilde on Direct Examination (April 3,1895)". Famous Trials. University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law. Archived from the original on 17 August 2021 . Retrieved 29 November 2020. As a spokesman for aestheticism, he tried his hand at various literary activities: he published a book of poems, lectured in the United States and Canada on the new "English Renaissance in Art" and interior decoration, and then returned to London where he worked prolifically as a journalist. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress and glittering conversational skill, Wilde became one of the best-known personalities of his day. At the turn of the 1890s he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into what would be his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). The opportunity to construct aesthetic details precisely, and combine them with larger social themes, drew Wilde to write drama. He wrote Salome (1891) in French while in Paris, but it was refused a licence for England due to an absolute prohibition on the portrayal of Biblical subjects on the English stage. Undiscouraged, Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late-Victorian London. Johnson, Leon (2000). "(Re)membering Wilde". Archived from the original on 21 October 2014 . Retrieved 24 July 2015.Autobiography or Biography". The Pulitzer Prizes. Archived from the original on 25 May 2015 . Retrieved 22 February 2010. By 25 November 1900, Wilde had developed meningitis, then called "cerebral meningitis". Robbie Ross arrived on 29 November, sent for a priest, and Wilde was conditionally baptised into the Catholic Church by Fr Cuthbert Dunne, a Passionist priest from Dublin, [226] [227] Wilde having been baptised in the Church of Ireland and having moreover a recollection of Catholic baptism as a child, a fact later attested to by the minister of the sacrament, Fr Lawrence Fox. [228] Fr Dunne recorded the baptism: Pen, Pencil and Poison" First published in the Fortnightly Review (1889), republished in Intentions (1891). Until his early twenties, Wilde summered at the villa, Moytura House, which his father had built in Cong, County Mayo. [24] There the young Wilde and his brother Willie played with George Moore. [25] University education: 1870s Trinity College, Dublin Clayworth, Anna (Summer 1997). " 'The Woman's World': Oscar Wilde as Editor: 1996 Vanarsdel Prize". Victorian Periodicals Review. 30 (2): 84–101. JSTOR 20082977.

a b Mendelsohn, Daniel (10 October 2002). "The Two Oscar Wildes". New York Review of Books. Vol.49, no.15. Archived from the original on 6 August 2020 . Retrieved 1 April 2020. The Oscar Wilde Memorial walk in Reading includes gates with cultural references to Wilde (the outside wall of the Gaol is to the left) Mikhail, E. H. (1979). Oscar Wilde: Interviews and Recollections. London: Palgrave Macmillan. Volume 1 ISBN 9781349039234. Volume 2 ISBN 9781349039265. Wilde, Oscar. An ideal husband. Act III: London: typescript with extensive autograph revisions, 1894. OCLC 270589204.Wilde's third name is spelled 'O'Fflahertie' on his birth certificate and in other important documents such as his 1895 police court statement, but different spellings were used during his lifetime and have been used ever since. [1] [2] Shurvell, Joanne (29 November 2017). "Afternoon Tea At Oscar Wilde's Favorite Bar". Forbes . Retrieved 3 July 2022. Bedell, Geraldine (26 October 2003). "It was all Greek to Oscar". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 24 June 2013 . Retrieved 22 February 2010. The Second Collected Edition (Methuen & Co., 12 volumes) appeared in installments between 1909–11 and contained several other unpublished works. The Philosophy of Dress" First published in The New-York Tribune (1885), published for the first time in book form in Oscar Wilde On Dress (2013).