"The Picture of Dorian Gray (opera) The Picture of Dorian Gray, op. 45, is an American opera in two acts and 12 scenes, with libretto and music by Lowell Liebermann, based on the novel of the same name by Oscar Wilde. The opera had its world premiere at the Monte Carlo Opera on 8 May 1996, in a production by John Cox, conducted by Steuart Bedford. Bedford also conducted the American premiere, on 5 February 1999 by Florentine Opera, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Center City Opera Theater in Philadelphia commissioned a re-orchestration of the opera for chamber orchestra. This version received"
"it. Wilde contacted Couperus and sent him his book ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"". The exchange of letters between Wilde and Louis Couperus and his wife Elisabeth Couperus-Baud resulted in the first translation of Wilde's novel, published in 1893, in Dutch by ""mevrouw Louis Couperus"" (Mrs. Louis Couperus). Most of the other translations of the work of Louis Couperus were of Alexander Teixeira de Mattos (1855–1921) who married later the widow of Wilde's brother Willie Wilde. Clara Bell Clara Bell, née Poynter (1835–1927), was an English translator fluent in French, German, Danish, Dutch, Italian, Norwegian, Russian, and Spanish, noted for"
"the romantic novelist Amelia Opie, and the travelogue author George Borrow. Physiognomy is a central, implicit assumption underlying the plot of Oscar Wilde's ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"". In 19th-century American literature, physiognomy figures prominently in the short stories of Edgar Allan Poe. Phrenology, also considered a form of physiognomy, was created around 1800 by German physician Franz Joseph Gall and Johann Spurzheim, and was widely popular in the 19th century in Europe and the United States. In the U.S., physician James W. Redfield published his ""Comparative Physiognomy"" in 1852, illustrating with 330 engravings the ""Resemblances between Men and Animals""."
"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"
"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"
"with a British editor and British contributors. The dinner was also attended by Oscar Wilde, who eventually contributed ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"" to the July 1890 issue. Doyle discussed what he called this ""golden evening"" in his 1924 autobiography ""Memories and Adventures"". The novel first appeared in the February 1890 edition of ""Lippincott's Monthly Magazine"" as ""The Sign of the Four; or The Problem of the Sholtos"" (five-word title), appearing in both London and Philadelphia. The British edition of the magazine originally sold for a shilling, and the American for 25 cents. Surviving copies are now worth several thousand"
"another."" The name of Dorian Gray's love interest, Sibyl Vane, may be a modified fusion of the title of Disraeli's best known novel (""Sybil"") and Vivian Grey's love interest Violet Fane, who, like Sibyl Vane, dies tragically. There is also a scene in ""Vivian Grey"" in which the eyes in the portrait of a ""beautiful being"" move when its subject dies. ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"" originally was a novella submitted to ""Lippincott's Monthly Magazine"" for serial publication. In 1889, J. M. Stoddart, an editor for Lippincott, was in London to solicit novellas to publish in the magazine. On 30"
"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"
"was ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"" (1891). During the dinner party the two authors chatted, and Wilde disclosed that he had read ""Micah Clarke"" and liked it. Conan Doyle mentioned the incident in his 1924 autobiography, ""Memories and Adventures"". He explained that he and Wilde became friendly, but that the friendship remained a distant one at best, and that it grew more distant as Wilde's reputation became questionable. The actual friendly relationship appears to be true, but that Wilde liked ""Micah Clarke"" remains at issue. In the 1999 biography of Conan Doyle, ""Teller of Tales"", author Daniel Stashower suspects that"
"of Gautier's plays were never published or reluctantly accepted. Between the years 1839 and 1850, Gautier wrote all or part of nine different plays: Two poems from ""Émaux et camées""—""Sur les lagunes"" and the second of two titled ""Études de Mains""—are featured in Oscar Wilde's ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"". Dorian reads them out of the book shortly after Basil Hallward's murder. Ernest Fanelli's ""Tableaux Symphoniques"" are based on Gautier's novel ""Le Roman de la Momie"". In ""Peter Whiffle"" by Carl Van Vechten, the main character Peter Whiffle cites Gautier as a great influence and writer, among others. Théophile Gautier"
"about Elisabeth Couperus-Baud in his novel ""De zwaluwen neergestreken"": ""We are cousins and played together as children. We still own photographs of ourselves together, when we were young."" In 1893 Louis Couperus received a letter from Oscar Wilde, in which he was complemented with his novel ""Noodlot""; this book was translated into English by Clara Bell. As a result of the correspondence Elisabeth Couperus-Baud was asked to translate Wilde's book ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"". After her marriage to Louis Couperus, Couperus-Baud was active as a critic of her husband's work and made readable copies of his handwritings. In time"
"a painting of Swiss landscape that reminds him of a view he saw while at a sanatorium in Switzerland, and also when he first sees the face of his love interest, Nastasya, in the form of a painted portrait. At one point in the novel, Nastasya, too, describes a painting of Christ, her own imaginary work that portrays Christ with a child, an image which naturally evokes comparison between the image of the dead Christ. The Irish aesthete and novelist Oscar Wilde's ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"" (1890/1891) tells how Basil Hallward paints a picture of the young man named"
"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"
"he told the publisher, George Lippincott, ""in its present condition there are a number of things an innocent woman would make an exception to. ..."" Among the pre-publication deletions that Stoddart and his editors made to the text of Wilde's original manuscript were: (i) passages alluding to homosexuality and to homosexual desire; (ii) all references to the fictional book title ""Le Secret de Raoul"" and its author, Catulle Sarrazin; and (iii) all ""mistress"" references to Gray's lovers, Sibyl Vane and Hetty Merton. ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"" was published on 20 June 1890, in the July issue of ""Lippincott's Monthly"
"narrator had been wounded, and that he had eaten opium to relieve the pain. Poe probably excised this introduction because it was not particularly relevant, and it also gave the impression that the story was nothing more than a hallucination. The shorter version, renamed ""The Oval Portrait"" was published in the April 26, 1845 edition of the ""Broadway Journal"". The story inspired elements in the 1891 novel ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"" by Oscar Wilde. Five years before the novel's publication, Wilde had praised Poe's rhythmical expression. In Wilde's novel, the portrait gradually reveals the evil of its subject rather"
"of the Association of Dutch Teachers a lecture was held about fatal determinism. In this meeting J. van Loenen Martinet described the fatalism in the novels of Couperus as a symptom of a disease which consisted of a determinism that denied the facts of moral life. Oscar Wilde however was very impressed by ""Footsteps of Fate"" and wrote Louis Couperus a letter to compliment him with his novel. As a result of this contact the wife of Couperus, Elisabeth Couperus-Baud, received order to translate Wilde's ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"" into Dutch. Present day literature scientists believe that Couperus was"
"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)."
"Harry Grey Herschel Goldberg, better known as Harry Grey (November 2, 1901 – October 1, 1980), was a Russian-American writer. His first book, ""The Hoods"" (1952), was the model for the film, ""Once Upon a Time in America"" by Sergio Leone, where his part was played by Robert De Niro. This was one of the few autobiographies of real gangsters. It is believed that the real name of the author was Goldberg and that his memoir, partially factual, partially subconsciously altered, and partially fictional, was written when Goldberg was incarcerated in the Sing-Sing prison. After ""The Hoods"", Grey published two"
"Fifty Shades of Grey Fifty Shades of Grey is a 2011 erotic romance novel by British author E. L. James. It is the first instalment in the ""Fifty Shades"" trilogy that traces the deepening relationship between a college graduate, Anastasia Steele, and a young business magnate, Christian Grey. It is notable for its explicitly erotic scenes featuring elements of sexual practices involving bondage/discipline, dominance/submission, and sadism/masochism (BDSM). Originally self-published as an ebook and a print-on-demand, publishing rights were acquired by Vintage Books in March 2012. ""Fifty Shades of Grey"" has topped best-seller lists around the world, selling over 125 million"
"Hurd Hatfield William Rukard Hurd Hatfield (December 7, 1917 – December 26, 1998) was an American actor. He was best known for often playing characters of handsome, narcissistic young men, most notably Dorian Gray in the film ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"" (1945). Hatfield was born in New York City to William Henry Hatfield (died 1954), an attorney who served as deputy attorney general for New York, and his wife, Adele (née McGuire). He was educated at Columbia University before traveling to London, England where he studied drama and began acting in theatre. He returned to America for his film"
"Richard Fraser (actor) Richard Fraser (born Richard Mackie Simpson; 15 March 1913 – 19 January 1972) was a Scottish film, television, and stage actor. He is perhaps best known for his role in the 1945 film ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"". After graduating from Sedbergh School as Richard Mackie Simpson, Richard's mother divorced and his name was shortened to Richard Mackie. After attending Cambridge University, Richard Mackie studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Having spent time as a London stage actor, Richard emigrated to the US and in New York married Louise Christine Sheldon, the couple then"
"Richard Fraser (actor) Richard Fraser (born Richard Mackie Simpson; 15 March 1913 – 19 January 1972) was a Scottish film, television, and stage actor. He is perhaps best known for his role in the 1945 film ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"". After graduating from Sedbergh School as Richard Mackie Simpson, Richard's mother divorced and his name was shortened to Richard Mackie. After attending Cambridge University, Richard Mackie studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Having spent time as a London stage actor, Richard emigrated to the US and in New York married Louise Christine Sheldon, the couple then"
"the 2013 documentary film, """". His short story ""The Destructors"" was featured in the 2001 film ""Donnie Darko"". Bibliography Graham Greene Henry Graham Greene (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991), better known by his pen name Graham Greene, was an English novelist regarded by many as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. Combining literary acclaim with widespread popularity, Greene acquired a reputation early in his lifetime as a major writer, both of serious Catholic novels, and of thrillers (or ""entertainments"" as he termed them). He was shortlisted, in 1966 and 1967, for the Nobel Prize for"
"Jennifer Lash Jennifer Anne Mary Alleyne Lash (27 February 1938 – 28 December 1993; also known as Jini Fiennes) was an English novelist and painter. In 1961, she published ""The Burial"", her first novel, at the age of 23. Lash was regarded as one of the most promising young people among England's artists at the time. Upon meeting Jennifer Lash in Suffolk, Dodie Smith, who wrote ""The Hundred and One Dalmatians"", remarked that Lash was ""almost too interesting to be true"". Lash was born at Chichester, Sussex on 27 February 1938, the daughter of Joan Mary (née Moore) and Brigadier"
"best-known personalities of his day. At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into what would be his only novel, ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"" (1890). The opportunity to construct aesthetic details precisely, and combine them with larger social themes, drew Wilde to write drama. He wrote ""Salome"" (1891) in French while in Paris but it was refused a licence for England due to an absolute prohibition on the portrayal of Biblical subjects on the English stage. Unperturbed,"
"the National Gallery of Canada. Richards died in Glassonby, Cumberland, England on 26 November 1934. Frances Richards (Canadian artist) Frances Richards (or Frances Richards Rowley, or Frances Elswood Richards) (1852–1934) was a Canadian painter who grew up in Canada and lived, during the latter part of her life, in England. Her portrait of Oscar Wilde may have inspired him to write ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"". Frances Richards was born in Brockville, Ontario, the daughter of Albert Norton Richards, who was later the Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia. In 1888 she married William Edwin Rowley in London. Richards studied in Paris"
"of the published versions. The summary below deals with the longest version, the 1891 novel. However, certain episodes describe in particular Dorian's encounter with (and subsequent murder of) James Vane. This does not appear in the version originally submitted by Wilde for publishing. ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"" begins on a summer day in Victorian England, where Lord Henry Wotton, an opinionated man, is observing the sensitive artist Basil Hallward painting a portrait of Dorian Gray, a handsome young man, who is Basil's ultimate muse. While posing for the painting, Dorian listens to Lord Henry espousing his hedonistic worldview and"
"and both Charles Maturin's ""The Fatal Revenge"" (1807) and ""Melmoth the Wanderer"" (1820). Somewhat later came the first lesbian vampire novella ""Carmilla"" (1872) by Sheridan Le Fanu and ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"" (1890) by Oscar Wilde, which shocked readers with its sensuality and overtly homosexual characters. There is even gay subtext in Bram Stoker's ""Dracula"" (1897) as the title character warns off the female vampires and claims Jonathan Harker, saying ""This man belongs to me!"" Richard S. Primuth of ""The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide"" writes that Stoker, a closeted gay man and close friend of Oscar Wilde, began"
"edition of the Athens Festival programme. Since 1974 she started her deeper involvement with the theatre, writing the play ""The Portrait of Dorian Grey"" (based on Oscar Wilde's novella), and adapting Georg Büchner's ""Lenz"" for Dimitri Potamitis' Theatre of Research. Later on, she translated Sam Shepard’s ""Shock"" and Edward Albee’s ""Sea View"" for Yorgos Messalas' company. Together with her daughter, she translated Manjula Padmanabhan’s ""Harvest"" which was awarded 1st prize at the Onassis International Theatre Competition in 1998 and Jean Anouilh’s ""Jesabel"" for Jenny Roussea’s troupe in 1999. She was spurred to write a book by her chance encounter and"
"This in turn influenced American novelists like Herman Melville in works such as ""Moby Dick"" (1851). Early Victorian Gothic novels included Emily Brontë's ""Wuthering Heights"" (1847) and Charlotte Brontë's ""Jane Eyre"" (1847). The genre was revived and modernised toward the end of the century with works like Robert Louis Stevenson's ""Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"" (1886), Oscar Wilde's ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"" (1890) and Bram Stoker's ""Dracula"" (1897). By the late nineteenth century pseudo-medieval symbols were the currency of European monarchical state propaganda. German emperors dressed up in and proudly displayed medieval costumes in public, and"
"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"
"the Coningsby Gallery, in Fitzrovia; and afterwards was moved to the Leyden Gallery in Spitalfields, from 14 August to 9 September. Alasdair Gray Alasdair Gray (born 28 December 1934) is a Scottish writer and artist. His acclaimed first novel, ""Lanark"" (1981), written over almost 30 years, was described by ""The Guardian"" as ""one of the landmarks of 20th-century fiction."" ""Poor Things"" (1992) won him a Whitbread Novel Award and Guardian Fiction Prize. He calls himself a civic nationalist and a republican. His works combine realism, fantasy, and science fiction, plus clever use of typography and his own illustrations. He has"
"Kazimierz Czachowski Kazimierz Czachowski or Kazimierz Stanisław Czachowski (Łyszkowice near Łowicz, November 28, 1890 – August 17, 1948, Kraków) was a Polish literary critic and historian, active predominantly in the Second Polish Republic. He was awarded the Golden Laurel of the Polish Academy of Literature in 1937 for his monographs about world-renowned authors such as Henryk Sienkiewicz, Marcel Proust, Thomas Mann, John Galsworthy and others. He translated into Polish ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"" by Oscar Wilde (1928). He wrote under several different pen names including ""Dionizy"", ""Adam Korabski"" and ""Ludowiec"", and specialized in the literature of Polish ""positivism"" and"