An ideal husband: A 1895 stage play by Oscar Wilde

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Sandulescu, Constantin-George, ed. (1994). Rediscovering Oscar Wilde. Gerrards Cross, UK: C. Smythe. ISBN 978-0-86140-376-9. It is delightful to see, it sends wave after wave of laughter . . . but as a text to criticism it is barren and delusive . . . it is intangible, it eludes your grasp. What can a poor critic do with a play which raises no principle, whether of art or morals, creates its own canons and conventions, and is nothing but an absolutely wilful expression of irrepressibly witty personality. 13 Of the two young ladies Cecily and Gwendolen, does either seem more sincere, more “earnest” than the other? In what ways are they different? In what ways are they the same? During the trial, Queensberry’s defense accused Wilde of soliciting 12 other young men to commit sodomy. The defense also questioned Wilde about the premise of his controversial 1890 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, suggesting that Wilde had used the novel’s homoerotic themes to seduce Lord Alfred. In the novel, an older artist is attracted to the beauty of a younger man whose portrait he paints.

Russell, Bindon (July 1995). "Commemorative Plaque at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket". The Wildean (7): 9–13. ISSN 1357-4949. JSTOR 45269165. Passive-Aggressive Kombat: When Gwendolen and Cecily mistakenly come to believe that they are both engaged to the same man, they engage in an incredibly vicious yet polite catfight. The unstated rule is that they must insult each other while maintaining the appearance of civility and the one who loses her temper first loses. Cecily wins. D'Arch Smith, Timothy (1998). Bunbury–Two Notes on Oscar Wilde. Bicary, France: The Winged Lion. OCLC 41155817. Wilde, Oscar (1995), The Importance of Being Earnest, London: Hodder Headline Audiobooks, ISBN 978-1-85998-218-1, OCLC 40458250

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Atkinson, Brooks (9 March 1947). "John Gielgud's Version of Oscar Wilde's Play". The New York Times . Retrieved 29 January 2023. a b Craft, Christopher Another Kind of Love: Male Homosexual Desire in English Discourse, 1850–1920, University of California Press, 1994, p116-118 One Degree of Separation: Although like many of the tropes in this play, this is something of a satire on common dramatic conventions. Ebert, Roger (24 May 2002). "The Importance of Being Earnest review". Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from the original on 5 June 2011 . Retrieved 3 May 2010.

a b Wearing, J.P. (2004). "Alexander, Sir George [real name George Alexander Gibb Samson] (1858–1918), actor and theatre manager". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (onlineed.). Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/30370 . Retrieved 29 January 2023. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) The French Play in London': Performing, Translating, and Adapting from the French in Victorian Britain The Transformative Power of the Arts in Victorian and Edwardian Culture and Society / 58 e Congrès de la SAES, atelier de la SFEVE, Utopia(s) and Revolution(s) This caused a breach between the author and actor which lasted for some years; Alexander later paid Wilde small monthly sums and bequeathed his rights in the play to the author's son Vyvian Holland. [22] After three days of court proceedings, Wilde’s lawyer withdrew the lawsuit. The authorities saw this as a sign of implied guilt and issued a warrant for Wilde’s arrest on indecency charges.

And Miss Prism's name is a reference to the word misprision, as well as suggesting "prim" and alluding to the phrase "prunes and prisms." After graduation from Oxford, Wilde returned to Dublin, where he met again Florence Balcombe, a childhood sweetheart. She became engaged to Bram Stoker and they married in 1878. [48] Wilde was disappointed but stoic: he wrote to her, remembering "the two sweet years– the sweetest years of all my youth" during which they had been close. [49] He also stated his intention to "return to England, probably for good". This he did in 1878, only briefly visiting Ireland twice after that. [49] [50]