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PART ONE:THE WRITER AND HIS SETTING 1

Chronology 3

1 BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL CONTEXT 13

Family life:Lady Wilde and Mrs Oscar Wilde 13

Ireland 21

Homosexuality 28

The myth of Wilde 35

PART TWO:AESTHETIC AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY 43

2 CRITICAL WRITINGS 45

Lectures 45

Journalism 48

The Woman's World 49

'The Soul of Man Under Socialism' 51

Critical dialogues 56

3 THEATRE PRACTICE AND INNOVATION 63

PART THREE:CRITICAL SURVEY 73

4 POETRY 75

Poems(1881) 75

The Ballad of Reading Gaol(1898) 75

5 SHORT FICTION 87

The Happy Prince 88

The House of Pomegranates 91

Aestheric criticism 94

Aestheric prose:'The Fisherman and his Soul' 97

Newspaper fiction:Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories 100

6 THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY 111

7 SALOME,SALOME,AND SYMBOLIST THEATRE 131

8 THE SOCIAL COMEDIES 157

Lady Windermere's Fan 157

A Woman of No Importance 170

An Ideal Husband 182

The Importance of Being Earnest 192

9 LETTERS 207

'De Profundis' 208

On prison reform 214

PART FOUR:REFERENCE SECTION 219

10 WILDE AND HIS CIRCLE 221

Gazetteer 231

Short glossary of critical terms 235

Further reading 238

INDEX 244

List of illustrations 27

Oscar Wilde in March 1892 frontispiece 27

Front cover of the Police News,4 Mav 1895 27

Front cover of the Sale Catalogue,24 April 1895 31

Caricature of Wilde,Punch,95 June 1881 36

Helena in Troas,Hengler's Circus,London,May 1886 67

Cover design by Charles Ricketts for A House of Pomegranates,1891 95

The Dancer's Reward,by Aubrey Beardsley,1894 154

Costume sketches for An Ideal Husband,Queen,12 January 1895 184

George Alexander as Jack in The Importance of Being Earnest,St James's Theatre,London,1909 200

Jacob Epstein's sphinx monument for Oscar Wilde's tomb at the Père Lachaise Cemetery,Paris,1993 234