Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1969.įoldy, Michael S. Oscar Wilde: A Collection of Critical Essays. New York: Viking, 1987.įreedman, Jonathan, ed. ![]() "Willie and Wilde: Reading The Portrait of Mr. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1978.Ĭohen, William A. New York: Routledge, 1993.Ĭohen, Philip K. Talk on the Wilde Side: Toward a Genealogy of Discourse on Male Sexualities. The publicity surrounding Wilde’s trials had a chilling effect on the daily lives of countless terrified people who were driven only deeper into the closet but it also led to the development of a nascent gay and lesbian consciousness that became central to the success of the GLBT Civil Rights Movement that was to follow.Ĭohen, Ed. Wilde’s persecution, which brought to light details about gay life among the upper class long kept hidden, ushered homosexuality into public view in a way it had not been – underscoring the decisive role the closet played in keeping it hidden from society even though it was not uncommon. He died on Novemand was buried in France. The dissipation that followed took a final toll on what remained of his health. Bankrupt, bereft of friends, and his place in society, he went into exile. When he was released from prison in 1897 he was a broken man. Losing the suit, he was indicted on charges of “gross indecency between males.” His first trial, remembered for its defense of “the love that dare not speak its name,” ended without a verdict but he was tried again, lost, and was sentenced to two years at hard labor. His place in society threatened, Wilde sued Queensberry for libel. ![]() At the height of his fame he was publicly accused of being a ‘sodomite’ by John Douglas, the Marquis of Queensberry, with whose son, Lord Alfred, Wilde had been involved. for penning The Picture of Dorian Gray, his influential political tract The Soul of a Man Under Socialism and his theater masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest. "Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much."īy the age of 40 Oscar Wilde was famous in Europe and the U.S.
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