Oscar Wilde's witticisms such as " I can resist everything except temptation " are considered epigrams.

Classic works of this Urban Gothic include Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ( 1886 ), Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray ( 1891 ), George du Maurier's Trilby ( 1894 ), Richard Marsh's The Beetle: A Mystery ( 1897 ), Henry James ' The Turn of the Screw ( 1898 ), and the stories of Arthur Machen.

The Gothic tradition continued in the 19th century, in such works as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ( 1818 ), Edgar Allan Poe's short stories, the works of Sheridan Le Fanu, Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ( 1886 ), Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray ( 1890 ), and Bram Stoker's Dracula ( 1897 ).

* In Oscar Wilde's novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray ( 1890 ), a portrait serves as a magical mirror that reflects the true visage of the perpetually youthful protagonist, as well as the effect on his soul of each sinful act

The alchemist's ( and Coelho's ) source was very probably Hesketh Pearson's The Life of Oscar Wilde ( 1946 ) in which this story is recorded ( Penguin edition, p. 217 ) as one of Wilde's inspired inventions.

Many elements of the screwball genre can be traced back to such stage plays as Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It and A Midsummer Night's Dream and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.

The title is never revealed in the novel, but at Oscar Wilde's trial he admitted that he had ' had in mind ' Joris-Karl Huysmans's À Rebours (' Against Nature ').

* February 11 – Oscar Wilde's play " Salomé premieres in Paris.

* February 14 – Oscar Wilde's last play The Importance of Being Earnest is first shown at St. James ' Theatre in London.

In chapter 4 of Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, Dorian leafs through a copy of Manon Lescaut while waiting for Lord Henry.

Preminger's next film would be another period piece based on a literary classic, Oscar Wilde's 1897 play Lady Windermere's Fan.

However, although the Bible records Salome's dance, the first mention of her removing seven veils occurs in Oscar Wilde's play of ' Salome ', in 1893: which some have claimed as the origin of modern striptease.

In the England of the Aesthetic Movement, Aubrey Beardsley's drawings attested profound kinship with the figure ; Olive Custance ( who would marry Oscar Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas ) published the poem " Pierrot " in 1897 ; and Ernest Dowson wrote the verse-play Pierrot of the Minute ( 1897, illustrated by Beardsley ), to which the composer Sir Granville Bantock would later contribute an orchestral prologue ( 1908 ).

In Oscar Wilde's 1890 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, Lord Henry Wooton turns praise of folly into a philosophy which mocks " slow Silenus " for being sober.

Two poems from " Émaux et camées " -- " Sur les lagunes " and the second of two titled " Études de Mains " -- are featured in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Dame Margaret Taylor Rutherford, DBE ( 11 May 1892 – 22 May 1972 ) was an English character actress, who first came to prominence following World War II in the film adaptations of Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit, and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.

He played sympathetically an impoverished composer-pianist in Tales of Manhattan ( 1942 ) and starred in an updated version of Oscar Wilde's The Canterville Ghost in 1944.

Another monument of relevant importance that has been restored to its former beauty is the monumental Cemetery of Staglieno, in which the mortal remains of several known personalities rest, among them Giuseppe Mazzini, Fabrizio De André and Oscar Wilde's wife.

His grave has been vandalized in recent years, with many people mistaking his tombstone for Oscar Wilde's.

He died in London, aged 55, nearly a year before Oscar Wilde's death.

In Oscar Wilde's story " The Young King ", a reference is made to the king kissing a statue of ' the Bithynian slave of Hadrian ' in a passage describing the young king's aesthetic sensibilities and his "... strange passion for beauty ...".

He made many television appearances, including an episode of NBC's The Virginian, in the episode " The Brazen Bell ", in which he recites Oscar Wilde's poem " The Ballad Of Reading Gaol ".

The incident was not repeated, the play received moderately good reviews and had a modest run of four weeks, before being taken off to make way for Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, which Alexander thought would have better prospects for the coming Season.

Hylas is also mentioned in Christopher Marlowe's play Edward II: " Not Hylas was more mourned for of Hercules / Than thou hast been of me since thy exile " ( Act I, Scene I, line 142-3 ), and in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, Chapter 11.

Salomé ( 1923 ), a silent film directed by Charles Bryant and starring Alla Nazimova, is a film adaptation of the Oscar Wilde play of the same name.

It is also possible that the play Salomé by Oscar Wilde, published in 1893, was another symbolist source of inspiration for The King in Yellow.

Marcel Schwob corrected the original French version of Salomé on behalf of Oscar Wilde.

Richard Strauss's 1905 opera Salomé, based on the play by Oscar Wilde, uses a subject frequently depicted by symbolist artists.

That the expression is in French probably comes from the fact that the fin de siècle is particularly associated with certain late 19th-century French-speaking circles in Paris and Brussels, exemplified by artists like Stéphane Mallarmé and Claude Debussy, movements like Symbolism, and in works like Oscar Wilde's Salomé ( originally written in French and premiered in Paris )— which connects the idea of the fin de siècle also to the Aesthetic movement.

Among the theatre sets he has designed are sets for Riverdance, I'll Go On, Gate Theatre ( 1985 ), Samuel Beckett's Endgame ( 1991 ) and Oscar Wilde's Salomé ( 1998 ).

Tomei has also done substantial work in the theater, including taking lead roles on Broadway in Wait Until Dark ( 1998 ) and Oscar Wilde's Salomé ( 2003 ) alongside Al Pacino and Dianne Wiest as well as many Off-Broadway plays such as Tony Kushner's Slavs!

Though Oscar Wilde never published anything within its pages, it was linked to him because Beardsley had illustrated his Salomé and because he was on friendly terms with many of the contributors.

" The Peacock Skirt ", illustration by Aubrey Beardsley for Oscar Wilde's play Salomé ( play ) | Salomé, 1896

Salomé's story was made the subject of a play by Oscar Wilde that premiered in Paris in 1896, under the French name Salomé.

* Salomé, play by Oscar Wilde, French ( 1894 ), translated into English by Lord Alfred Douglas, 1895.

The firm was the American publisher of Oscar Wilde's Salomé, illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley ; The Yellow Book periodical, also illustrated by Beardsley ; and The Black Riders and Other Lines by Stephen Crane.

** Salomé ( Mariotte ), a 1908 opera by Antoine Mariotte based on the Oscar Wilde play

Ferlin had a minor career as an actor and debuted at the age of seventeen in Salomé by Oscar Wilde.

54, is an opera in one act by Richard Strauss to a German libretto by the composer, based on Hedwig Lachmann's German translation of the French play Salomé by Oscar Wilde.

Oscar Wilde originally wrote his Salomé in French.

In other cities, provoking a scandal appeared more risky, as Oscar Wilde would find out shortly after his relatively " successful " Parisian scandal ( Salomé — 1894, portraying the main character as a necrophile ):

Salome ( or in French: Salomé ) is a tragedy by Oscar Wilde.

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Ricketts was one of two well-known illustrators of Oscar Wilde's work, the other being Aubrey Beardsley who worked on Salomé.

In 1893 Oscar Wilde staged two plays: Salomé ( French version ) and Lady Windermere's Fan.

The Oscar Wilde play Salomé, and Strauss's opera adaptation, both feature the dance of the seven veils.