"""psychological collapse more prolonged and more convincing."" The introduction of the James Vane character to the story develops the socio-economic background of the Sibyl Vane character, thus emphasising Dorian's selfishness and foreshadowing James's accurate perception of the essentially immoral character of Dorian Gray; thus, he correctly deduced Dorian’s dishonourable intent towards Sibyl. The sub-plot about James Vane's dislike of Dorian gives the novel a Victorian tinge of class struggle. With such textual changes, Oscar Wilde meant to diminish the moralistic controversy about the novel ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"". Consequent to the harsh criticism of the magazine edition of the"
"Oscar Wilde Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"", and the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death. Wilde's parents were successful Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. Their son became fluent in French and German early in life. At university, Wilde read Greats; he proved himself to be an outstanding classicist, first at Dublin, then at"
"la justice mettre le nez dans nos draps"" (""The Oscar Wilde Affair, or, On the Danger of Allowing Justice to put its Nose in our Sheets"") by , a French religious historian. Oscar Wilde Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"", and the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death. Wilde's parents were successful Anglo-Irish"
"Stevenson's ""Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde""—published in the same year (1886) as Richard von Krafft-Ebing's ""Psychopathia Sexualis""—and, subsequently, Oscar Wilde's only novel (containing his aesthetic manifesto) ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"" (1891). In ""Tess of the d'Urbervilles"" (1891), Thomas Hardy explores the destructive consequences of a family myth of noble ancestry. Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen showed a sensitivity to degenerationist thinking in his theatrical presentations of Scandinavian domestic crises. Arthur Machen's ""The Great God Pan"" (1890/1894), with its emphasis on the horrors of psychosurgery, is frequently cited as an essay on degeneration. A scientific twist was added"
"Simon Gray Simon James Holliday Gray, CBE (21 October 1936 – 7 August 2008) was an English playwright and memoirist who also had a career as a university lecturer in English literature at Queen Mary, University of London, for 20 years. While teaching at Queen Mary, Gray began his writing career as a novelist in 1963 and, during the next 45 years, in addition to five published novels, wrote 40 original stage plays, screenplays, and screen adaptations of his own and others' works for stage, film, and television and became well known for the self-deprecating wit characteristic of several volumes"
"Erythraean Sibyl, which were written on leaves and arranged so that the initial letters of the leaves always formed a word. Sybil Vane is also a character in Oscar Wilde's only novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. She is an actress who commits suicide when Dorian rejects her, first causing the portrait to change and Dorian to notice the connection between him and the portrait. The apparent uniqueness of this narrative approach has created fame for this story, and Nabokov himself described this device as something that 'can only be tried once in a thousand years of fiction'. The trick"
"Farjeon (niece of Eleanor Farjeon and Harry Farjeon); she supplied the costume and scenic designs for many of the theatrical productions of his plays, as well as the illustrations for most of his printed plays and for the novel version of ""The Seventh Swan"". Nicholas Stuart Gray Nicholas Stuart Gray (23 October 1922, Scotland – 17 March 1981) was a British actor and playwright, perhaps best known for his work in children's theatre in England. He was also an author of children's fantasy; he wrote a number of novels, a dozen plays, and many short stories. Neil Gaiman has written"
"Butterfly"", ""Spring Awakening"", and ""The Book of Mormon"". The Glencairn Plays, all of which feature characters on the fictional ship ""Glencairn""—filmed together as ""The Long Voyage Home"": Other one-act plays include: Eugene O'Neill Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into U.S. drama techniques of realism earlier associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindberg. The drama ""Long Day's Journey into Night"" is often numbered on the short list of the"
"Oscar Wilde bibliography This is a bibliography of works by Oscar Wilde, a late-Victorian Irish writer. Chiefly remembered today as a playwright, especially for ""The Importance of being Earnest"", and as the author of ""The Picture of Dorian Gray""; Wilde's oeuvre includes criticism, poetry, children's fiction, and a large selection of reviews, lectures and journalism. His private correspondence has also been published. Wilde was declared bankrupt to pay legal costs after his conviction for ""gross indecency"", and his possessions - including manuscripts, letters, books and presentation volumes of all the major literary figures of his day - were sold by"
"from a trip to England, when he died on board the ""Dominion Monarch"". He was buried at sea, off Cape Town, South Africa. His most successful stage work, ""The Coquette: or, A Suicidal Policy"" (1905), was a light opera in the style of Gilbert and Sullivan; it tells the story of a suicide club. It was written by W. J. Curtis and J. I. Hunt and published in 1905. His only serious opera was ""Dorian Gray"", a setting of Oscar Wilde's novel ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"". It had its premiere at the New South Wales State Conservatorium on 11"
"Nicholas Stuart Gray Nicholas Stuart Gray (23 October 1922, Scotland – 17 March 1981) was a British actor and playwright, perhaps best known for his work in children's theatre in England. He was also an author of children's fantasy; he wrote a number of novels, a dozen plays, and many short stories. Neil Gaiman has written that Gray ""is one of those authors I loved as a boy who holds up even better on rereading as an adult"". Many other modern fantasy authors, such as Hilari Bell, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, Kate Forsyth, Cassandra Golds, Katherine Langrish, Sophie Masson, and Garth Nix,"
"George Bernard Shaw George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as ""Man and Superman"" (1902), ""Pygmalion"" (1912)"" and Saint Joan"" (1923). With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Dublin, Shaw"
"the shorter, more inflammatory, magazine version in England the previous year, published the revised version of ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"". The only novel written by Wilde, ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"" exists in several versions: the 1890 magazine edition (in 13 chapters), with important material deleted before publication by the magazine's editor, J. M. Stoddart; the ""uncensored"" version submitted to ""Lippincott's Monthly Magazine"" for publication (also in 13 chapters), with all of Wilde's original material intact, first published in 2011 by Harvard University Press; and the 1891 book edition (in 20 chapters). As literature of the 19th century, ""The"
"plays: ""The Pretty Trap"" (1944) for ""The Glass Menagerie"", ""Interior: Panic"" (1946) for ""A Streetcar Named Desire"", ""Kingdom of Earth"" (1967) for ""The Seven Descents of Myrtle"", ""I Never Get Dressed Till After Dark on Sundays"" (1973) for ""Vieux Carré"", and ""Some Problems for the Moose Lodge"" (1980) for ""A House Not Meant to Stand"". The Magic Tower and Other One-Act Plays The Magic Tower and Other One-Act Plays is a collection of 15 plays, seven of them previously unpublished, by American playwright Tennessee Williams. Published by New Directions in New York City in 2011, Williams' scholar Thomas Keith edited"
"Dodie Smith Dorothy Gladys ""Dodie"" Smith (3 May 1896 – 24 November 1990) was an English children's novelist and playwright, known best for the novel ""The Hundred and One Dalmatians"" (1956). Other works include ""I Capture the Castle"" (1948), and ""The Starlight Barking"" (1967). ""The Hundred and One Dalmatians"" was adapted into a 1961 Disney animated movie version. Her novel ""I Capture the Castle"" was adapted into a 2003 movie version. ""I Capture the Castle"" was voted number 82 as ""one of the nation's 100 best-loved novels"" by the British public as part of the BBC's The Big Read (2003)."
"Fielding was ""the greatest practising dramatist, with the single exception of Shakespeare, produced in England between the Middle Ages and the nineteenth century."" However, modern critics rarely agree with Shaw, as Robert Hume points out, ""Few scholars have been much interested in Fielding's highly successful career as a dramatist. To most it has seemed a false start. Readers tend to find the conventional plays derivative and sentimental, the topical ones scrappy and superficial."" In particular, only one book until 1988 was published on the topic, which was Ducrocq's ""Le theatre de Fielding, 1728–1737, et ses prolongements dans l'oeuvre romanesque"". This"
"Plays of L. Frank Baum The plays of L. Frank Baum are an important aspect of Baum's writing career about which some of the least is known. While even most brief biographies, long before the Internet, have noted Baum's work as a playwright, these works have been rarely performed beyond his lifetime, and almost none have been published aside from two scenarios and a first act of three unfinished works in ""The Musical Fantasies of L. Frank Baum"", compiled with an introduction by Alla T. Ford. Aside from his youthful success with ""The Maid of Arran"", his blockbuster eight-year run"
"its free use of morality figures such as the good angel and the bad angel and the seven deadly sins, along with the devils Lucifer and Mephistopheles."" Thomas Dekker (c. 1570–1632) was, between 1598 and 1602, involved in about forty plays, usually in collaboration. He is particularly remembered for ""The Shoemaker's Holiday"" (1599), a work where he appears to be the sole author. Dekker is noted for his ""realistic portrayal of daily London life and for ""his sympathy for the poor and oppressed"". Robert Greene (c. 1558–1592) was another popular dramatist but he is now best known for a posthumous"
"Singular"" (1975), ""The Norman Conquests"" trilogy (1973), ""Bedroom Farce"" (1975), ""Just Between Ourselves"" (1976), ""A Chorus of Disapproval"" (1984), ""Woman in Mind"" (1985), ""A Small Family Business"" (1987), ""Man Of The Moment"" (1988), ""House"" & ""Garden"" (1999) and ""Private Fears in Public Places"" (2004). His plays have won numerous awards, including seven London ""Evening Standard"" Awards. They have been translated into over 35 languages and are performed on stage and television throughout the world. Ten of his plays have been staged on Broadway, attracting two Tony nominations, and one Tony award. Ayckbourn was born in Hampstead, London. His mother Irene"
"the most notable, that owed much to Bertolt Brecht. T. S. Eliot had begun this attempt to revive poetic drama with ""Sweeney Agonistes"" in 1932, and this was followed by ""The Rock"" (1934), ""Murder in the Cathedral"" (1935) and ""Family Reunion"" (1939). There were three further plays after the war. Saunders Lewis (1893–1985), writer in Welsh, was above all a dramatist. His earliest published play was ""Blodeuwedd"" (The woman of flowers) (1923–25, revised 1948). Other notable plays include ""Buchedd Garmon"" (The life of Germanus) (radio play, 1936) and several others after the war. James Bridie, the pseudonym used by Osborne"
"Arthur Miller Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright, essayist, and a major figure in the twentieth-century American theater. Among his most popular plays are ""All My Sons"" (1947), ""Death of a Salesman"" (1949), ""The Crucible"" (1953) and ""A View from the Bridge"" (1955, revised 1956). He wrote several screenplays and was most noted for his work on ""The Misfits"" (1961). The drama ""Death of a Salesman"" has been numbered on the short list of finest American plays in the 20th century alongside Eugene O'Neill's ""Long Day's Journey into Night"" and Tennessee Williams's"
"Shakespeare's plays The plays written by English poet, playwright, and actor William Shakespeare have the reputation of being among the greatest in the English language and in Western literature. Traditionally, the plays are divided into the genres of tragedy, history, and comedy; they have been translated into every major living language, in addition to being continually performed all around the world. Many of his plays appeared in print as a series of quartos, but approximately half of them remained unpublished until 1623, when the posthumous First Folio was published. The traditional division of his plays into tragedies, comedies, and histories"
"and his Maid"" was staged. Gilbert and Sullivan's operettas ""The Gondoliers"", or, ""The King of Barataria"" (1889), ""Utopia, Limited"", or, ""The Flowers of Progress"" (1893) and ""The Grand Duke"", or, ""The Statutory Duel"" (1896) were all staged. Lewis Carroll's last novel, the two-volume Sylvie and Bruno, was published in 1889 and 1893 respectively. In 1889 Oscar Wilde published ""The Portrait of Mr. W. H."". In 1890 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published ""The Sign of the Four"". H. Rider Haggard published ""The Saga of Eric Brighteyes"" an epic viking novel. Oscar Wilde published ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"". In 1891 Herman"
"three plays marked with were not included in the First Folio. Like most playwrights of his period, Shakespeare did not always write alone, and a number of his plays were collaborative, although the exact number is open to debate. Some of the following attributions, such as for ""The Two Noble Kinsmen"", have well-attested contemporary documentation; others, such as for ""Titus Andronicus"", remain more controversial and are dependent on linguistic analysis by modern scholars. Note: For a comprehensive account of plays possibly by Shakespeare or in part by Shakespeare, see the separate entry on the Shakespeare Apocrypha. Unlike his contemporary Ben"
"clearly done in each case—became a success, and he followed it up with ""The Man of Property"" (1906), the first book of a Forsyte trilogy. Although he continued writing both plays and novels, it was as a playwright that he was mainly appreciated at the time. Along with those of other writers of the period, such as George Bernard Shaw, his plays addressed the class system and other social issues, two of the best known being ""Strife"" (1909) and ""The Skin Game"" (1920). He is now far better known for his novels, particularly ""The Forsyte Saga"", his trilogy about the"
"Eugene O'Neill Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into U.S. drama techniques of realism earlier associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindberg. The drama ""Long Day's Journey into Night"" is often numbered on the short list of the finest U.S. plays in the 20th century, alongside Tennessee Williams's ""A Streetcar Named Desire"" and Arthur Miller's ""Death of a Salesman"". O'Neill's plays were among the first to include speeches in"
"as the ""stereotypical poet of the nineties"". John Gray (poet) Canon John Gray (2 March 1866 – 14 June 1934) was an English poet and Catholic priest whose works include ""Silverpoints"", ""The Long Road"" and ""Park: A Fantastic Story"". It has often been suggested that he was the inspiration behind Oscar Wilde's fictional Dorian Gray despite evidence of the contrary. Born in the working-class district of Bethnal Green, London, he was the first of nine children. He left school at the age of 13 and began work as an apprentice metal-worker at the Royal Arsenal. He continued his education by"
"Shakespeare's plays had been published in quarto before 1623, the First Folio is arguably the only reliable text for about 20 of the plays, and a valuable source text for many of those previously published. The Folio includes all of the plays generally accepted to be Shakespeare's, with the exception of ""Pericles, Prince of Tyre""; ""The Two Noble Kinsmen""; and the two lost plays, ""Cardenio"" and ""Love's Labour's Won"". On 23 April 1616, William Shakespeare died in Stratford-upon-Avon, and was buried in the chancel of the Church of the Holy Trinity two days later. After a long career as an"
"edited by English professor and 1890s expert Ian Fletcher. His definitive biography was published in 1991 by Jerusha Hull McCormack, who also edited a selection of his prose works. McCormack published a fictionalized version of his life in 2000, under the title of ""The Man Who Was Dorian Gray"". ""The Picture of John Gray"" by C.J. Wilmann, a play based on John Gray's life, premiered at The Old Red Lion Theatre, London, in August 2014. Like many of the artists of that period, Gray was a convert to Roman Catholicism. He was baptised on 14 February 1890, but soon lapsed."
"estimated that up to 60,000 people lined the streets. King Gustaf V sent a wreath for the bier. Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Maxim Gorky, John Osborne, and Ingmar Bergman are among the many artists who have cited Strindberg as an influence. Eugene O'Neill, upon receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature, dedicated much of his acceptance speech to describing Strindberg's influence on his work, and referred to him as ""that greatest genius of all modern dramatists."" A multi-faceted author, Strindberg was often extreme. His novel ""The Red Room"" (1879) made him famous. His early plays belong to the Naturalistic movement. His"
"on in England, and their sole zealous proponent Thomas Rymer was hardly ever mentioned by influential writers except as an example of narrow dogmatism. Dryden, for example, argued in his influential ""Essay of Dramatick Poesie"" (1668) – the same essay in which he noted that Shakespeare's plays were performed only half as often as those of Beaumont and Fletcher – for Shakespeare's artistic superiority. Though Shakespeare does not follow the dramatic conventions, Dryden wrote, Ben Jonson does, and as a result Jonson lands in a distant second place to ""the incomparable Shakespeare"", the follower of nature, the untaught genius, the"
"for his plays, as the first of these were awarded after he published his last play in 1899, playwright Henrik Ibsen is probably the most famous figure in Norwegian literature. Ibsen wrote plays such as ""Peer Gynt"", ""A Doll's House"", ""Hedda Gabler"", and ""The Lady from the Sea"". Other famous Norwegian writers from the realistic era include Jonas Lie and Alexander Kielland, who are along with Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson and Henrik Ibsen regarded as the ""four greats"" of Norwegian literature. Also of importance to the Norwegian literary culture is the Norse literature, and in particular the works of Snorri Sturluson, as"
"Five Plays Five Plays is the eighth book by Anglo-Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, considered a major influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula K. Le Guin and others. It was first published in hardcover by Grant Richards in February, 1914, and has been reprinted a number of times since. The book is actually Dunsany's sixth major work, two of his preceding books having been chapbooks or selections from his other works. In contrast to most of Dunsany's other early books, ""Five Plays"" is a collection of dramatic works, the first of several such"