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The Plays of Oscar Wilde (Wordsworth Classics)

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Ebert, Roger (12 June 1998). "Wilde". Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from the original on 20 January 2013 . Retrieved 2 April 2010. The Decay of Lying" First published in Nineteenth Century (1889), republished in Intentions (1891).

Cox, Devon (2015). The Street of Wonderful Possibilities: Whistler, Wilde & Sargent in Tite Street. London: Frances Lincoln. ISBN 978-0-7112-3673-8. 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]Jullian, Philippe (6 April 2000). Oscar Wilde. Paris: Editions Christian de Bartillat. ISBN 978-2-84100-220-7. Raby, Peter, ed. (1997). The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde. London: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-47987-5. The first version of The Picture of Dorian Gray was published as the lead story in the July 1890 edition of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, along with five others. [124] The story begins with a man painting a picture of Gray. When Gray, who has a "face like ivory and rose leaves", sees his finished portrait, he breaks down. Distraught that his beauty will fade while the portrait stays beautiful, he inadvertently makes a Faustian bargain in which only the painted image grows old while he stays beautiful and young. For Wilde, the purpose of art would be to guide life as if beauty alone were its object. As Gray's portrait allows him to escape the corporeal ravages of his hedonism, Wilde sought to juxtapose the beauty he saw in art with daily life. [125] Oscar Wilde's money diary: how the Irish playwright lived in debt". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 4 June 2020 . Retrieved 26 August 2020.

The Women of Homer (Written 1876, while at college). First published in Oscar Wilde: The Women of Homer (2008) by The Oscar Wilde Society. Wilde, Oscar. An ideal husband. Act III: London: typescript with extensive autograph revisions, 1894. OCLC 270589204. a b c d Mendelssohn, Michèle (2018). Making Oscar Wilde. Oxford University Press. p.285. ISBN 978-0-19-880236-5. Holland, Merlin (2004). The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-00-715805-8. Archived from the original on 20 August 2020 . Retrieved 24 August 2018.In 1886 at Oxford, Wilde met Robert Ross. Ross, who had read Wilde's poems before they met, seemed unrestrained by the Victorian prohibition against homosexuality. By Richard Ellmann's account, he was a precocious seventeen-year-old who "so young and yet so knowing, was determined to seduce Wilde". [84] According to Daniel Mendelsohn, Wilde, who had long alluded to Greek love, was "initiated into homosexual sex" by Ross, while his "marriage had begun to unravel after his wife's second pregnancy, which left him physically repelled". [85] Stern, Simon (2017). "Wilde's Obscenity Effect: Influence and Immorality in the Picture of Dorian Gray". The Review of English Studies. 68 (286): 756–772. doi: 10.1093/res/hgx035. Aquien, Pascal (2006). Oscar Wilde: Les mots et les songes: Biographie (in French). Croissy-Beaubourg: Aden. p.30. ISBN 9782848400808 . Retrieved 26 June 2022. Papers of Robert Ross and Vyvyan Holland relating to the Literary Estate of Oscar Wilde at the Bodleian Library, Oxford London's Wilde tribute". BBC News. 30 November 1998. Archived from the original on 21 May 2018 . Retrieved 24 November 2020.

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