An ideal husband: A 1895 stage play by Oscar Wilde

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Atkinson, Brooks (9 March 1947). "John Gielgud's Version of Oscar Wilde's Play". The New York Times . Retrieved 29 January 2023. This caused a public relations nightmare for Wilde. Homosexual acts were a criminal offense in England at the time and remained illegal there until the 1960s.

The play was published in 1899 in an edition of 1000 copies; Wilde's name was not printed: the work was published as "By the author of Lady Windermere's Fan". [6] It is dedicated to Frank Harris, "A slight tribute to his power and distinction as an artist, his chivalry and nobility as a friend." [7] The published version differs slightly from the performed play, as Wilde added many passages and cut others. Prominent additions included written stage directions and character descriptions. Wilde was a leader in the effort to make plays accessible to the reading public. [8] Original cast [ edit ] 1895 programme Amid a frenzy of newspaper coverage, the libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry opened on April 3, 1895, at the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales, commonly known as Old Bailey. At a preliminary bail hearing, hotel chambermaids and a housekeeper had testified that they had seen young men in Wilde’s bed and found fecal stains on his sheets. Wilde, Oscar (2010). The Importance of Being Earnest: a trivial comedy for serious people. Samuel Lyndon Gladden. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press. ISBN 978-1-5040-5018-0. OCLC 1016979952. At the height of his fame and success, while The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) was still being performed in London, Wilde prosecuted the Marquess of Queensberry for criminal libel. [3] The Marquess was the father of Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. The libel trial unearthed evidence that caused Wilde to drop his charges and led to his own arrest and trial for gross indecency with men. [4] After two more trials he was convicted and sentenced to two years' hard labour, the maximum penalty, and was jailed from 1895 to 1897. [5] During his last year in prison he wrote De Profundis (published posthumously in 1905), a long letter that discusses his spiritual journey through his trials, forming a dark counterpoint to his earlier philosophy of pleasure. On his release, he left immediately for France, and never returned to Ireland or Britain. There he wrote his last work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), a long poem commemorating the harsh rhythms of prison life.

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Cheryl Crawford / Equity Liberty Theatre / Barry Manilow / National Theatre of the Deaf / Diana Ross / Lily Tomlin (1977) After three days of court proceedings, Wilde’s lawyer withdrew the lawsuit. The authorities saw this as a sign of implied guilt and issued a warrant for Wilde’s arrest on indecency charges. Goring receives a letter from Lady Chiltern asking for his help – a letter that could be misinterpreted as a compromising love note. Just as Goring receives this note, his father, Lord Caversham, drops in and demands to know when his son will marry. A visit from Chiltern, who seeks further counsel from Goring, follows. Meanwhile, Mrs Cheveley arrives unexpectedly and, misrecognised by the butler as the woman Goring awaits, is ushered into Lord Goring's drawing room. While she waits, she finds Lady Chiltern's letter. Chiltern discovers Mrs Cheveley in the drawing room and, convinced of an affair between these two former lovers, he storms out of the house. During the trial, Wilde was questioned extensively about “the love that dare not speak its name,” a phrase from Lord Alfred Douglas’ poem “Two Loves,” published in 1894, that many interpreted as a euphemism for homosexuality. Parker, John, ed. (1922). Who's Who in the Theatre (4thed.). London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons. OCLC 473894893.

a b Craft, Christopher Another Kind of Love: Male Homosexual Desire in English Discourse, 1850–1920, University of California Press, 1994, p116-118 Koerble, Betty (1952). W. S. Gilbert and Oscar Wilde – A Comparative Study. Madison: University of Wisconsin. OCLC 55806177.

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Play of the Month presenting: An Ideal Husband". BBC Genome Project. 11 May 1969 . Retrieved 12 April 2023. Dennis, Richard (2008). Cities in Modernity: Representations and Productions of Metropolitan Space, 1840–1930. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-46841-1. Wilde was later transferred to London’s Reading Gaol, where he remained until his release in 1897. Wilde’s health suffered in prison and continued to decline after his release.

Feingold, Michael (2004). "Engaging the Past". The Village Voice. New York. Archived from the original on 8 November 2006 . Retrieved 18 October 2006. Foster, Richard. "Wilde as a Parodist: A Second Look at the Importance of Being Earnest" . Retrieved 20 March 2014. World Magazine, 20/2/1895, cited by Ruth Robbins, York Notes Advanced on The Importance of Being Ea (...) Stedman, Jane W (1996). W. S. Gilbert, A Classic Victorian & his Theatre. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-816174-5.The Transformative Power of the Arts in Victorian and Edwardian Culture and Society / 58 e Congrès de la SAES, atelier de la SFEVE, Utopia(s) and Revolution(s) The BBC has broadcast seven radio adaptations since its first, in 1926: a 1932 version starring Leslie Perrins and Kyrle Bellew; a radio version of the 1943 Westminster Theatre production; a Bristol Old Vic version in 1947 featuring William Devlin, Elizabeth Sellars, Catherine Lacey and Robert Eddison; a 1950 production with Griffith Jones, Fay Compton and Isabel Jeans; a 1954 version produced by Val Gielgud; a 1959 adaptation starring Tony Britton and Faith Brook; a 1970 version with Noel Johnson, Ronald Lewis, Jane Wenham and Rosemary Martin; and a 2007 adaption with Alex Jennings, Emma Fielding, Janet McTeer and Jasper Britton. [28]