Wilde, Oscar

16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900

Famed (or is it "notorious"?) Irish playwright and novelist.

Sites:
Oscar Wilde Official Web Site this link opens a new window
How it got "official" is not quite clear, but there's a biography and more...
Oscar Wilde overview
Very rich resource, with a number of biographical, scholarly, and contextual discussions of Wilde and his works. [Victorian Web]
Oscar Wilde
Biographical and bibliographical information. [Literature Network]
Chronology
And more: this site also features many Wilde etexts. [Corpus of Electronic Literature]
Oscar Wilde page
At the 1890s Society - mostly a list of links
Biographical essay
[Wikipedia]
Brief biographical note
[Gothic Labyrinth]
Brief biographical note
[John W. Cousins, A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, 1910]
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The Trials of Oscar Wilde
Succinct accounts and helpful contextual information regarding Wilde's lawsuit against the Marquess of Queensberry for libel and his own subsequent conviction for "gross indecencies" (homosexuality).
Oscar Wilde page
Biographical note and links. [Pleasure Dome]
The Random Oscar Wilde Quote Page
No links or serious info, just fun.
Oscariana
A site built of brief quotations from Wilde and contemporary sources, providing an appropriately weird way of getting a sense of Wilde....
Biographical note [Columbia Encyclopedia, Bartleby]
Brief biographical note   [The Authors Calendar]
Wilde Hyper-Concordance
Part of the The Victorian Literary Studies Archive, this concordance allows you to search etexts of a number of Wilde's works, including Dorian Gray.
Portraits [National Portrait Gallery, London]


Etexts:
The Canterville Ghost [1891]this link opens a new window   buy this book at amazon.com
Wilde's humorous classic of skepticism and culture clash. [Corpus of Electronic Texts, University College, Cork]
"Lord Arthur Savile's Crime" [1909]
- at Etext Center, UVa (79K)
- at Project Gutenberg [239K]
This file includes other tales, among them The Canterville Ghost
The Picture of Dorian Gray [1890]
- entire text (465K) or Table of Contents [Etext Center, UVa]
- hypertext edition [R. van Valkenburg]


The Oscar Wilde Collection
A collection of Wilde etexts.
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Essays and Reviews:
The Picture of Dorian Gray, the Double, and Victorian Views of Suicide
A Victorian Web extract from Barbara T. Gates' Victorian Suicide: Mad Crimes and Sad Histories (Princeton UP, 1988)
The Oscholars
"An Electronic Journal for the Exchange of Information on Current Research, Publications and Productions concerning Oscar Wilde and his Circle." Includes online archives, so if you're doing research on Wilde, check this one out.

"The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast."
- Wilde, "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime"


"Oscar Wilde."