Until after Wilde's death his name remained disgraced and few discussed, let alone performed, his work.

It also meant fighting the rampant trade, following Wilde's arrest, in black market copies of his books and, in particular, books, usually erotic, that Wilde did not write but which were published illegally under his name.

Goring is served by Goring-by-Sea railway station and is thought to have been the inspiration for the name of the character Lord Goring in Oscar Wilde's play An Ideal Husband.

* Salome ( 1948 ) – ballet based on Oscar Wilde's play of the same name.

* In Oscar Wilde's play The Importance of Being Earnest, Act 2, Miss Prism is referred to as Egeria by Dr. Chasuble, although he clearly was referring to a Roman nymph of the same name.

" After seeing firsthand how dedicated Will was, and realizing that he was a public servant in the mold of Bartlet's own senior staff, Sam became impressed with how he ran Wilde's campaign and offered his own name as a replacement candidate for election night in case Wilde won, not thinking he would ever have to honor the promise.

Wilde's version of the story has since spawned several other artistic works, the most famous of which is Richard Strauss's opera of the same name.

This ensured that Wilde's name – by then notorious – did not appear on the poem's front cover.

The series also included " Pelleas & Melisande ", adapted from Maurice Maeterlinck's play of the same name ( which had also been turned into an opera by Claude Debussy ), and " Salome " adapted from Oscar Wilde's play of the same name.

Conan Doyle promptly submitted The Sign of the Four to Stoddart, but Wilde was more dilatory ; Conan Doyle's novel was published in the February 1890 edition of Lippincott's, but Stoddart did not receive Wilde's typescript for The Picture of Dorian Gray until 7 April 1890.

Beardsley was a caricaturist and did some political cartoons, mirroring Wilde's irreverent wit in art.

Although he did not defend Oscar Wilde's sexual conduct, he put up half of the £ 5000 bail money set for him when he was remanded for criminal trial.

* 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

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The Marquess of Queensberry, the father of Wilde's intimate friend Lord Alfred Douglas ( who was on holiday in Algiers at the time ), had planned to disrupt the play by throwing a bouquet of rotten vegetables at the playwright when he took his bow at the end of the show.

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.

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

* Richard Strauss — Salome, opera in one act based on Wilde's play ( 1905 )

Wilde's printing shop was in Golden Lion Court on Aldersgate Street, and Wilde had a reputation as " a master who grudged every hour ... that tended not to his profit ".

In 1950, on the 50th anniversary of Wilde's death, Ross ' ashes were added to Wilde's tomb in Père Lachaise Cemetery.

* In David Hare's play The Judas Kiss ( 1998 ), Ross is a major character in both Act 1, set in 1895 on the evening of the collapse of Wilde's libel case and in Act 2, in Italy in 1897.

Wilde's officially listed debut was on 26 December 1910, when he fought Les Williams to a no-decision in three rounds.

* Oscar Wilde's " Sonnet on Hearing the Dies Irae Sung in the Sistine Chapel " ( Poems, 1881 ), contrasts the " terrors of red flame and thundering " depicted in the hymn with images of " life and love ".

The most famous exposition of the theory is in Oscar Wilde's short story " The Portrait of Mr. W. H .," in which Wilde, or rather the story's narrator, describes the puns on " will " and " hues " in the sonnets, ( notably Sonnet 20 among others ), and argues that they were written to a seductive young actor named Willie Hughes who played female roles in Shakespeare's plays.

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!

Rambova's designs for Salome were based on drawings by Aubrey Beardsley for Oscar Wilde's version.

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.

This last interpretation, made even more memorable by Richard Strauss ' opera based on Wilde's play, is not consistent with Josephus ' account ; according to the Romanized Jewish historian, she lived long enough to marry twice and raise several children.

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

The team's song is " Abergavenny " based on Marty Wilde's 1968 hit song ' Taking a Trip Up to Abergavenny '.

Oscar Wilde's house on Tite Street, Chelsea

He has been a Vanity Fair contributing editor and wrote a film screenplay on playwright Oscar Wilde's final years, for which he seeks funding.

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.

* In the film The Picture of Dorian Gray ( 1949 ), based on Oscar Wilde's novel, the inscription " Little Boy Blue Come Blow Your Horn " appears embroidered on a towel on which Dorian Gray wipes his bloody hands after having killed Basil Hallward

Wilde's twelfth studio album, Snapshots, was released on 26 August 2011 and features cover versions of songs hand-picked from the last five decades.

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.

Contemporary reviews all praised the play's humour, though some were cautious about its explicit lack of social messages, while others foresaw the modern consensus that it was the culmination of Wilde's artistic career so far.

Soon afterwards, however, their feud came to a climax in court, where Wilde's homosexual double life was revealed to the Victorian public and he was eventually sentenced to imprisonment.

As Wilde's work came to be read and performed again, it was The Importance of being Earnest which saw the most productions.

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

B. Walkey admired the play and was one of few see it as the culmination of Wilde's dramatical career.

The magazine's editors feared the story was indecent as submitted, so they censored roughly 500 words, without Wilde's knowledge, before publication.

" The character of James Vane was also introduced, which helped to elaborate upon Sibyl Vane's character and background ; the addition of the character helped to emphasise and foreshadow Dorian's selfish ways, as James sees through Dorian's character, and guesses upon his future dishonourable actions ( the inclusion of James Vane's sub-plot also gives the novel a more typically Victorian tinge, part of Wilde's attempts to decrease the controversy surrounding the book ).

The former date is also significant in that it coincides with the year in Wilde's life during which he was introduced to homosexual practices.

A large portion of the criticism was levelled at Wilde's perceived hedonism, and its distorted views of conventional morality.

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.

* Montez was allegedly the inspiration for Jennifer Wilde's historical romance novel Dare To Love ( 1978 ), whose protagonist Elena Lopez is also a British woman passing herself off as Spanish who becomes an exotic dancer.

Toulouse-Lautrec's portrait of Wilde was done the same year as Wilde's trial.

Wilde's original short story was significantly different than the film.

According to the Libel Act 1843, proving the truth of the accusation and a public interest in its exposure was a defence against a libel charge, and Wilde's lawyers concluded that the prostitutes ' testimony was likely to do that.

The film was shot completely in black and white, matching the illustrations done by Aubrey Beardsley in the printed edition of Wilde's play.

Additionally, in Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, the artist Basil Hallward describes the appearance of Dorian Gray as an event as important to his art as " the face of Antinous was to late Greek sculpture.