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1. OSCAR WILDE PLAYS CRACKED
2. OSCAR WILDE PLAYS FULL

This actor is the ‘Fair Youth’ to whom the majority of the sonnets are addressed. H.’ refers to Willie Hughes, a boy actor with whom Shakespeare was in love.

OSCAR WILDE PLAYS CRACKED

H.’ One of the characters in Wilde’s story believes he has cracked this literary mystery: ‘W. Aptly, it was placed in a handbag.Ī short story (later expanded into a novella) inspired by the mysterious dedicatee of Shakespeare’s Sonnets from 1609, ‘Mr W. In 2007, a first edition of the play was donated to a charity shop in Nantwich, Cheshire. It’s known for Lady Bracknell’s famous two-word line: ‘A handbag?’ It’s a very witty play whose plot is in the tradition of old English comedies and farces.

Wilde’s best-known play, from 1895, The Importance of Being Earnest – which sees two male friends, Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, creating the perfect fictional excuse to explain their double lives to those closest to them – has been read in light of Wilde’s own double life (wife and children in Chelsea, assignations with young men in Soho). The story is essentially a variation on the Faust tale, with the titular Dorian Gray (a young, handsome man) giving his soul in exchange for the ability to remain young and handsome while the portrait of him ages and decays, especially as Dorian slides further into moral corruption and sin. The novel is a witty blend of Gothic horror with the ideas underpinning Aestheticism, or the ‘art for art’s sake’ movement. But in many ways Wilde’s only novel is the ultimate Victorian moral fable, about the dangers of living a selfish life driven by the pursuit of ‘new sensations’ above all else.

OSCAR WILDE PLAYS FULL

If you are interested in hearing more Oscar Wilde's you can download a number of his great plays as full cast dramatizations on audio download including The Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband, and Lady Windermere's Fan.Wilde’s famous preface to this – his one novel, published in book form in 1891 after being serialised the year before – states that ‘there is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book’. Wilde did not fare well after his incarceration and eventually died a poor man's death in Paris at the age of 46. He was eventually sentenced to two years of hard labor in prison. His own writing eventually lead to his legal demise as his published work The Picture of Dorian Gray was used to incriminate his homosexual tendencies. However, Wilde's homosexuality (unlawful at the time) was uncovered by the court. Eventually Wilde was accused of sodomy by Douglas' father, which resulted in Wilde attempting to sue Douglas' father in court. Although his personality made him instantly popular in his social circles, his work as an author did not become widely recognized until the publication of The Happy Prince and Other Tales a collection of children's stories in 1888.Īlthough Wilde did marry and have children, he led a double life as a homosexual and carried on an affair with aristocrat Lord Alfred Douglas. Wilde eventually relocated to America and became well known for his unusual sense of fashion, long hairm and ostentatious personality. Upon leaving the University, Wilde went on to publish his first volume of poetry entitled "Patience" and followed that work with a play entitled "The Duchess of Padua" in 1883. While a student at Oxford, Wilde gained accolades as he received the Newdegate Prize for his poem "Ravenna" describing his feelings about the Italian city of the same name. Born in Dublin in 1854 Wilde left his homeland to study at Oxford University. Oscar Wilde was a well renowned poet and playwright in 19th century England.