However, other major Australian cities, including Melbourne, would not see the play for the first time until new productions were mounted after Wilde's death.

" Later in a letter he said, the play, though " extremely funny " was Wilde's " first really heartless ".

Parker's adaptation includes the dunning solicitor Mr. Gribsby who pursues Jack to Hertfordshire ( present in Wilde's original draft, but cut at the behest of the play's first producer ).

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

* Oscar Wilde's Salomé ( 1893, first performed in Paris 1896 )

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.

After Wilde's play and Richard Strauss's operatic version of the same, first performed in 1905, the erotic ' dance of the seven veils ', became a standard routine for dancers in opera, vaudeville, film and burlesque.

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.

As a young Londoner, Ross is alleged to have been Oscar Wilde's first male lover.

Wilde's grandson, Merlin Holland, wrote, " It was his decision fifty years ago to publish the first edition of Oscar Wilde's letters which helped to put my grandfather back into the position which he lost in 1895 as one of the most charismatic and fascinating figures in English literary history.

The university also holds Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, first published 5 July 1687 and Oscar Wilde's manuscript of The Duchess of Padua from 1883.

Moreover, in Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray ( 1891 ), a major corrupting influence on Dorian is " the yellow book " which Lord Henry sends over to amuse him after the suicide of his first love.

After playing Oscar Wilde's lover John Gray in 1997's Wilde he took his first international role as Fifth Officer Harold Lowe in the blockbuster film Titanic.

Wilde's first MCA album Teases & Dares was again overlooked in her home country, but fared better in Germany, France and Scandinavia as well as scoring another German Top 10 single with " The Second Time " ( which was Top 30 in the UK ).

In January 1895 Wilde's An Ideal Husband was first performed.

In the first act of Oscar Wilde's The Importance Of Being Earnest ( 1895 ), cucumber sandwiches that have expressly been ordered and prepared for Lady Bracknell's expected visit are all voraciously eaten beforehand by her nephew and host, Algernon Moncrieff ; consequently he is forced to tell a little lie, with his butler's connivance: namely that " there were no cucumbers in the market this morning ... not even for ready money ".

His first major role as an adult was in the title role in a 1976 BBC Television Play of the Month adaptation of Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Sam first became familiar with the congressional race when he was sent to talk to Wilde's campaign manager, Will Bailey, on behalf of the Democratic Party to convince him to drop the campaign.

One of the illustrations Aubrey Beardsley produced for the first English edition of Wilde's play Salome ( 1894 )

In 1915, Jemadar Mir Dast, while attached to the 57th Wilde's Rifles ( Frontier Force ), was awarded the 55th's first ( and only ) Victoria Cross for his distinguished actions at Wieltie, Belgium.

It was the first of Wilde's stories to be published, appearing in the magazine The Court and Society Review in February 1887.

According to some authorities, Bunthorne is based partly on the poets Algernon Charles Swinburne and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who were considerably more famous than Wilde in early 1881, before Wilde's first volume of poetry had been published.

The building was situated on the north-west corner ( not north-east contrary to some sources ) of Fifth Avenue and West Eighteenth Street, and was the venue for Oscar Wilde's first lecture in America.

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.

Wilde's two final comedies, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, were still on stage in London at the time of his prosecution, and they were soon closed as the details of his case became public.

While popular farces and melodramas like the stage adaptation of Trilby anchored the repertoire ( the production ran for an extraordinary 260 performances ), Tree also encouraged the new drama, staging Maeterlinck's The Intruder ( 1890 ), Ibsen's An Enemy of the People ( 1893 ) and Wilde's A Woman of No Importance ( 1893 ), among others.

From August to November 2008, she played Mrs Cheveley in Oscar Wilde's stage play ' An Ideal Husband ' directed by Peter Hall and produced by Bill Kenwright.

Weisman's stage résumé includes roles in Arthur Schnitzler's Anatol, Jean Giraudoux's Apollo of Bellac, which received a Garland for Production of the Year and seven LA Weekly award nominations ; Madman and the Nun, The Firebugs, Suburban Motel, Ethan Lipton's Hope on the Range, Arthur Miller's Incident at Vichy, Oscar Wilde's Salome, and the West Coast Premiere of Jonathan Marc Sherman's Sophistry.

She returned to the stage in June 2010, to Dublin's Gaiety Theatre to play Lady Bracknell in Rough Magic Theatre Company ’ s production of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.

Withers starred in a number of stage plays, including Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea, Desire of the Moth, The First 400 Years ( with Keith Michell ), Beekman Place ( for which she also designed the set ), The Kingfisher, Stardust, Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard and Wilde's An Ideal Husband for the Melbourne Theatre Company ; both productions toured Australia.

Shonibare also takes carefully posed photographs and videos recreating famous British paintings or stories from literature but with himself taking centre stage as an alternative, black British dandy, e. g., A Rake's Progress by Hogarth which he translates into Diary of A Victorian Dandy ( 1998 ) or Dorian Gray ( 2001 ) after Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.

The film was based on Patrick Wilde's stage play What's Wrong With Angry ?, and is a love story between two British schoolboys.

Highlights of Meek's stage career at Trinity include leading roles in the August Wilson plays Fences and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, James Purdy's Eustace Chisholm and the Works, Athol Fugard's Boesman and Lena, Peer Gynt, The Threepenny Opera, Tartuffe, The Visit, Fires in the Mirror, Adrian Hall and Robert Cumming's adaptation of A Christmas Carol ( including the role of " Ebenezer Scrooge "), Terrence McNally's Master Class, Henry IV, Tennessee Williams ' Suddenly Last Summer and, more recently, Lorraine Hansberry's Raisin in the Sun and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.

Along with Stuart Merrill, Adolphe Retté, and Pierre Louÿs, Marcel Schwob worked on Oscar Wilde's play Salome, which was written in French to avoid a British law forbidding the depiction of Bible characters on stage.

Wilde's notoriety caused the play, despite its success, to be closed after just 86 performances.

After the success of Wilde's plays Lady Windermere's Fan and A Woman of No Importance, Wilde's producers urged him to write further plays.

Wilde's ensuing notoriety caused the play, despite its success, to be closed after only 86 performances.

Shortly after the success of Strauss ' opera, Antoine Mariotte created another opera based on Wilde's original French script.

Events in Wilde's personal life were to overtake his literary success and he died in Paris in 1900.

Although it achieved only moderate success in the US, peaking at number 25 when released in 1982, it is often regarded today as Wilde's signature song.

Herbert Beerbohm Tree, actor-manager of London's Haymarket Theatre, asked Oscar Wilde to write him a play following the success of Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan at the St. James Theatre.

Following the success of the singles on the British charts, the album One World was released on 14 November 2005, and included twelve tracks with 9 of the tracks using Jinian Wilde's vocals.