The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature ... - uogenglish

Late Nineteenth-Century Drama
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Mason, S. [C. S. Millard]. Oscar Wilde and the aesthetic movement.
Dublin [1920].
Muddimen, B. The men of the nineties. 1920.
Murry, J. M. Oscar Wilde as a tragic hero [response to F. Harris Oscar
Wilde]. Athenaeum 1920.
Richter, H. Oscar Wilde’s persönlichkeit in seinen gedichten.
EStudien 54 1920.
Symons, A. A jester with genius. Bookman 51 1920.
Thomas, L. L’esprit d’Oscar Wilde. Paris 1920.
Biography, reminiscences, contemporary portraits
With Wilde there is not always a clear line between biography and criticism.
Some items listed under §2, above, could just as easily have appeared below,
and vice versa. In the following section post–1920 biographies are limited to
essential works.
Gilbert, W. S. and A. Sullivan. An entirely new and original aesthetic
opera . . . entitled Patience; or Bunthorne’s bride. (Opéra
Comique 23 Apr 1881). [1881].
Ye soul agonies in ye life of Oscar Wilde. Illustr C. Kendrick, New
York 1882. Anon.
Whistler, J. A. McNeill. The gentle art of making enemies. London
1890.
Brookfield, C. The poet and the puppets: a travestie suggested by
Lady Windermere’s fan. (Comedy 19 May 1892). [1892?]; rptd 1979.
Hichens, R. S. The green carnation. 1894, New York 1895; rptd 1949,
1970.
Y. T. O. [L. C. Amery, F. W. Hirst and H. A. Cruso]. Aristophanes at
Oxford. Oxford 1894, rptd 1979.
Young, D. Apologia pro Oscar Wilde. [1895.]
Raffalovich, M.-A. Uranisme et unisexualité: étude sur différentes
manifestations de l’instinct sexuel. Lyons and Paris 1896.
Sherard, R. H. Oscar Wilde: the story of an unhappy friendship.
1902, 1905; also The life of Oscar Wilde, 1906; The real Oscar
Wilde, [1915]; Oscar Wilde ‘drunkard and swindler’: a reply to
George Bernard Shaw, G. J. Renier, Frank Harris, Calvi, Corsica
1933; André Gide’s wicked lies about the late Mr Oscar Wilde in
Algiers in January, 1895, as translated from the French and broadcast
by Dr G. J. Renier, Calvi, Corsica 1933; Oscar Wilde twice
defended from André Gide’s wicked lies and Frank Harris’s cruel
libels, Chicago 1934; Bernard Shaw, Frank Harris, and Oscar
Wilde, 1937; TLS 1 and 15 Oct 1938.
Blei, F. In memoriam Oscar Wilde. Leipzig 1905.
Gide, A. Oscar Wilde: a study from the French of André Gide, introd
by S. Mason [C. S. Millard]. Oxford 1905.
Young, J. M. S. Osrac, the self-sufficient, and other poems, with a
memoir of the late Oscar Wilde. 1905.
La Jeunesse, E., A. Gide and F. Blei. Recollections of Oscar Wilde. Tr
and introd by P. Pollard, Boston and London 1906.
The trial of Oscar Wilde from the shorthand reports. (In US, The
shame of Oscar Wilde.) Paris 1906.
Ingleby, L. C. Oscar Wilde. [1907]; also Oscar Wilde: some
reminiscences, [1912].
Terry, E. The story of my life. 1908.
Balen, C. van. Oscar Wilde. Haarlem 1910.
Brémont, A. Comtesse de. Oscar Wilde and his mother: a memoir.
1911.
Ford, F. M. Ancient lights. 1911.
[Millard, C. S.] Oscar Wilde: three times tried. 1912.
Newton, A. Oscar Wilde. 1912.
Howe, P. P. Dramatic portraits. 1913.
Birnbaum, M. Oscar Wilde: fragments and memories. 1914.
Douglas, Lord A. Oscar Wilde and myself. 1914, tr Fr 1917, rptd
1919; also Autobiography, 1929 (in US, My friendship with
Oscar Wilde, New York 1932); A letter from Lord Alfred Douglas
on André Gide’s lies about himself and Oscar Wilde, Calvi,
Corsica 1933; Without apology, 1938; Oscar Wilde: a summingup,
1940.
Harris, F. Oscar Wilde, his life and confessions. 2 vols 1916; rptd with
B. Shaw, Memories of Oscar Wilde, New York [1918], rev New York
1930, London 1938, 1965, New York 1974; also with Lord A.
Douglas, New preface to The life and confessions of Oscar Wilde,
1925; tr Fr 1928.
Gosse, E. The life of Algernon Charles Swinburne. 1917.
Kernahan, C. In good company. 1917.
Saltus, E. Oscar Wilde: an idler’s impression. Chicago 1917.
Epstein, M. Max Reinhardt. Berlin 1918.
Le Gallienne, R. Coming back of Wilde. Munsey’s Mag 66 1919.
Aldrich, L. Crowding memories. Boston 1920.
Pearson, H. The life of Oscar Wilde. 1946; US as Oscar Wilde: his life
and wit, rev 1954, rptd 1975, Harmondsworth 1985.
Hyde, H. M. (ed). The trials of Oscar Wilde. 1948 ( Notable British
trials series). (US as The three trials of Oscar Wilde, New York
1956); enlarged edn Harmondsworth 1962. Also Oscar Wilde: the
aftermath, 1963; Oscar Wilde, New York 1975, London 1976.
Holland, V. Son of Oscar Wilde. 1954. With foreword by M. Holland,
1987; also Oscar Wilde: a pictorial biography, 1960 (US as Oscar
Wilde and his world, New York 1960).
Jullian, P. Oscar Wilde. Paris 1967; tr V. Wyndham 1967.
Kohl, N. (ed). Oscar Wilde: leben und werk in daten und bildern.
Frankfurt 1976; rev 1986.
Mikhail, E. H. (ed). Oscar Wilde: interviews and recollections. 2 vols
1979.
Ellmann, R. Oscar Wilde. 1987. See also H. Schroeder, Additions and
corrections to Richard Ellmann’s Oscar Wilde, Braunschweig
1989; J. Stokes, Wilde shot; London Rev of Books 27 Feb 1992; and
M. Holland, What killed Oscar Wilde? Spectator 24 Dec 1988 and
Wilde as Salomé, TLS 22 July 1994.
Vickers, J. and P. Copeland. The voice of Oscar Wilde: an investigation.
B[r] A[ssoc of] S[ound] C[ollections] News 2 1987.
Symons, J. Oscar Wilde: a problem in biography. Council Bluffs IA
1988.
Small, I. Biography reconsidered. In Oscar Wilde revalued,
Greensboro NC 1993; also with R. Jackson, Oscar Wilde: a
‘writerly’ life, Modern Drama 37 1994. [jk]