Tuesday the 13th
Oscar Wilde’s Books and Plays
1878 Ravenna, 1881 Poems, 1888 The Happy Prince and Other Tales, 1889 The Decay of Lying, 1891 The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891 Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories, 1891 Intentions, 1891 Salome, 1892 The House of Pomegranates' 1892 Lady Windermere’s Fan, 1893 A Woman of No Importance, 1893 The Duchess of Padua, 1895 An Ideal Husband, 1895 The Importance of Being Earnest, 1898 The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Oscar Wilde Links
The Official Web Site of Oscar Wilde
Site http://www.cmgww.com/historic/wilde/index.php
Oscar Wilde’s rich and dramatic portrayals of the human condition came during the height of the Victorian Era that swept through London in the late 19th century. At a time when all citizens of Britain were finally able to embrace literature the wealthy and educated could only once afford, Wilde wrote many short stories, plays and poems that continue to inspire millions around the world.
The Oscar Wilde Collection
Site http://www.oscarwildecollection.com
Online Downloadable editions of the works of Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde - Movie
Site http://www.oscarwilde.com
Welcome to 'Wilde' on the Web! On behalf of our director, Brian Gilbert, and ourselves, we are happy to share with you this cyber-guide to the motion picture 'WILDE'. As you explore the film and the man it honours, you join us in remembering two people of great moral courage as we celebrate the centenary of their lives: Oscar Wilde himself was a man determined to follow his nature despite the almost universal opposition of Victorian society. Given the chance to run away and avoid arrest, he stayed, spoke up and was imprisoned and ruined for the 'crime' of being himself. No less brave was his wife, Constance, who stood by her husband and who recognised Oscar's moral courage when it would have been infinitely easier to follow the advice of her friends and to turn her back on his struggle.
The Oscar Wilde Bookshop
Site http://www.oscarwildebooks.com
Oscar Wilde Bookshop sits beneath the quiet shade of trees along Christopher Street. Small and tucked away, it easily slips away from sight, and has eluded a searching customer from time to time. Some say that it's been a part of the neighborhood so long it simply blends in and after almost 40 years on the block, we feel this is true.
Oscar Wilde - Online Literature
Site http://www.online-literature.com/wilde/
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Irish poet and dramatist whose reputation rests on his comic masterpieces Lady Windermere's Fan(1892) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). Among Wilde's other best-known works are his only novel The Picture of Dorian Gray(1891) and his fairy tales especially "The Happy Prince."
Oscar Wilde - Victorian Web
Site http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/wilde/
Oscar Wilde, the son of an eminent Dublin surgeon, stands out among the fraternity of Victorian dramatists, which includes fellow-Irishman Dion Boucicault (1820-1890), James Robinson Planch&eachute; (1796-1880), Tom Robertson (1829-1871), Tom Taylor (1817-1880), W. S. Gilbert (1836-1911), and Arthur Wing Pinero (1859-1934). After Trinity College, Dublin, Wilde attended Magdalen College, Oxford, where as a disciple of Walter Pater he founded the Aesthetic Movement, which advocated "art for art's sake." His aesthetic idiosyncrasies such as his wearing his hair long, dressing colourfully, and carrying flowers while lecturing Gilbert and Sullivan parodied in the operetta Patience (1881).
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900)
Site http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/owilde.htm
Irish poet and dramatist whose reputation rests on his comic masterpieces Lady Wintermere's Fan and The Importance of Being Earnest. Among Wilde's other best-known works are his only novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, which deals very similar theme as Robert Luis Stevenson's Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde. Wilde's fairy tales are very popular - the motifs have been compared to those of Hans Christian Andersen.
The Oscar Wilde Society
Site http://www.oscarwildesociety.co.uk/
Founded in 1990, The Oscar Wilde Society is a literary society devoted to the congenial appreciation of Oscar Wilde. It is a non-profit making organisation which aims to promote knowledge, appreciation and study of Wilde's life, personality, and works. It organises lectures, readings, and discussions about Wilde and his works, and visits to places associated with him. The Society's Journal of Oscar Wilde Studies, "The Wildean", is published twice a year.
The Oscar Wilde Centre for Irish Writing
Site http://www.tcd.ie/OWC/history.html
The Oscar Wilde Centre for Irish Writing was opened in January 1998 as the teaching and research centre for both the long-standing M.Phil. in Anglo-Irish Literature and the newly established M.Phil. in Creative Writing. The Centre was originally the home of the Wilde family and it was in the Westland Row house that the famous son of Sir William and Lady Wilde ('Speranza') was born on October 16th 1854. As a fitting tribute to one of Trinity College's best known students, the Oscar Wilde Centre will eventually house a library and reading room dedicated to his memory, along with a room dedicated to another great Irish scholar and writer, Vivian Mercier. The Centre also houses the Visiting Writer's Office. At present the Writer Fellowship (established in 1986 in association with The Arts Council) is for Irish writers; in 2000 the International Writer Fellowship was inaugurated in association with the British Council. George Szirtes, the Anglo-Hungarian poet, spent three months living in the College as the first International Writer Fellow. Other International Writer Fellows to hold this position were: Leone Ross 2001, Andrew O'Hagan 2002, Ian Duhig 2003, Carlo Gébler 2004, Courttia Newland 2005. Devoted to writing and research, the Oscar Wilde Centre's exclusive focus is on providing an academic yet lively environment for students of both M.Phil. graduate courses. As an interface between college and community, the Oscar Wilde Centre plays a role in bringing the achievement and ambition of young writers and scholars to the attention of a wider public at home and abroad
"We are one of the great stocks of Europe. We are the people of Burke; we are the people of Swift, the people of Emmet, the people of Parnell. We have created most of the modern literature of this country. We have created the best of its political intelligence."
W. B. Yeats, speech in the Irish Senate, June 11, 1925