This project is entirely informed by original research. In the world of Wilde scholarship there exists much historical information relating to his time in America: works, ephemera, photographs, quotations, interviews, and more are collected on this web site.
This web site examines the background to the play. In August 1883 Wilde's early, and unsuccessful, play Vera or, The Nihilists was staged-and Wilde made a second visit to America for a month to oversee the production. But it is an under-appreciated fact that the first ever production of an Oscar Wilde play was in New York many years before his great success on the London stage. There have been countless thousands of performances of Wilde's plays worldwide in the last 130 years. Famous Authors & Writers Playwrights Oscar Wilde Author Oscar Wilde was known for his acclaimed works including 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' and 'The Importance of Being Earnest,' as well. Here you can learn about each of the photographs, including the famous Number 18 which was instrumental in establishing the U.S. This web site is the only repository in book form or online where all of those photographs are displayed in one place.
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It was also shortly after his arrival in New York that Wilde had a series of photographs taken that have come to define the image we have of him today. It is a major focus of this web site to provide a definitive itinerary of the lecture tour utilizing modern methods of archival research. The itinerary of this formative lecture tour has never before been precisely compiled-there have been several major previously published versions but none agrees with any other, and all contain inaccuracies. Oscar Wilde's first visit to North America was for almost the entire year of 1882, during which time he conducting a lecture tour across the continent, including two tours of Canada, undertaking 141 lectures.
People are sometimes surprised to learn that early in his career Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), the poet, playwright, and wit famous for his flamboyant, dramatic, and ultimately tragic life in London and Paris, made two visits to America and Canada.įurther, that each of these visits was important variously in informing his personal development, literary works, and continuing legacy.
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