Oscar Wilde: the myth of martydom

Historian article

By Trevor Fisher, published 1st March 2003

Over a century after his death, interest in Oscar Wilde and his work is at flood tide, with unprecedented levels of publication and research about Wilde and his work. Wildean studies proliferate, much in languages other than English. Recent translations of Wilde’s work have included Romanian, Hebrew, Swedish and Catalan, with significant texts about his work in German and Italian. The Oxford University Press has inaugurated publication of his Collected Works, while popular interest in Wilde seems insatiable. In the USA an Oscar Wilde Society was launched in March 2002, joining the long established British society whose bi-monthly journal Intentions records the steady stream of publications on Wilde. The bio-pic Wilde of 1997 broke the taboo on showing Wilde’s homosexual activities, while new filmed versions of An Ideal Husband (1999) and The Importance of Being Earnest (2002) have kept his sparkling comedies before the cinema audience...

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