Reading and Writing Skills for Students of Literature in English: The Victorian Period Enric Monforte Jacqueline Hurtley Bill Phillips
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
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Lady Jane Francesca Wilde (Jane Elgee, ) Speranza
William Robert Wilde
On 29 May 1884, Wilde married Constance Lloyd. They had two sons, Cyril (1885) and Vyvyan (1886). The photo shows Wilde’s wife and his son Cyril in
John Ruskin ( ), by John Everett Millais
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Walter Pater ( ): “Art for art’s sake”
Lord Alfred Douglas
Wilde and Douglas at Oxford (1893) experientialism.freewebspace.com/ oscar_wilde.htm
Homosexuality “I am the love that dare not speak its name”. Lord Alfred Douglas, “Two Loves” (1894)
Envelope and note that were basis of libel suit The trials of Oscar Wilde (1895) e/images.html
Poster announcing auction of Wilde’s possessions ects/ftrials/wilde/images.html
Reading "In Reading gaol by Reading town There is a pit of shame, And in it lies a wretched man Eaten by teeth of flame, In burning winding-sheet he lies, And his grave has got no name." Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)
The Ballad of Reading Gaol “And all men kill the thing they love, By all let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword!”
Wilde with Lord Alfred Douglas, Naples (1897)
Wilde’s works: The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888) The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) Lord Arthur Saville’s Crime and Other Stories (1891) Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892) Salomé (1893) A Woman of No Importance (1893) An Ideal Husband (1895) The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898) De Profundis (1905)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) Directed by Albert Lewin (1945)
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) Manuscript
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) Original production playbill
The Importance of Being Earnest at the St. James’s Theatre. Identity in Victorian society
Dandyism ‘ Dandy’ according to OED: “One who studies above everything to dress elegantly and fashionably; a beau, fop, ‘exquisite’”. dpress.com _image/e/ec/Dandies.jpg
Dandyism
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) ‘ Give me back my cigarette case.’ Allan Aynesworth as Algernon and George Alexander as Jack (1895) Photograph by Alfred Ellis Bunbury and Victorian hypocrisy
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) A middle-class British Victorian family takes tea
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) The countryside: Woolton Wood The city: Central London, Fleet Street around media/DSCF3667.jpg
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) Jennifer Scott-Malden as Gwendolen Fairfax, Geoffrey Church as Jack Worthing and Charles Edwards as Algernon Moncrieff, English Touring Theatre (1995)
The Importance of Being Earnest (Dir. Oliver Parker, 2002) Judi Dench as Lady Bracknell: impersonating Victorian society
De Profundis (1905) ‘... Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one centre of pain.’
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A Conversation with Oscar Wilde, London