1. Short Story second year classes
Assist.Prof.Asmaa.Mukaram. Saeed.

2. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) http://www.commons.wikimedia.org

3. Lady Jane Francesca Wilde (Jane Elgee, 1821-1896)
Speranza

4. William Robert Wilde

5. On 29 May 1884, Wilde married Constance Lloyd
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 1889.

6. John Ruskin (1819-1900), by John Everett Millais

8. Walter Pater (1839-1894): “Art for art’s sake”

9. Lord Alfred Douglas

10. Wilde and Douglas at Oxford (1893)

11. Envelope and note that were basis of libel suit
The trials of Oscar Wilde (1895)
Envelope and note that were basis of libel suit

12. Poster announcing auction of Wilde’s possessions

13. 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)

14. 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!”

15. Wilde with Lord Alfred Douglas, Naples (1897)

16. 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)

17. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) Directed by Albert Lewin (1945)

18. The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Manuscript

19. The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Original production
playbill

20. Identity in Victorian society
The Importance of
Being Earnest at the
St. James’s Theatre .
Identity in Victorian society

21. Dandyism
‘Dandy’ according to OED:
“One who studies above everything to dress elegantly and fashionably; a beau, fop, ‘exquisite’”.

22. Dandyism

23. The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Bunbury and Victorian
hypocrisy
‘Give me back my cigarette case.’ Allan Aynesworth as Algernon and George Alexander as Jack (1895) Photograph by Alfred Ellis

24. The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
A middle-class British
Victorian family takes
tea

25. The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
The countryside: Woolton Wood
The city: Central London,
Fleet Street around 1895

26. 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)

27. The Importance of Being Earnest (Dir. Oliver Parker, 2002)
Judi Dench as Lady Bracknell: impersonating Victorian society

28. 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.’

29. Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris

30. A Conversation with Oscar Wilde, London