Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Irish

By Davis Coakley

Book Overview

This biography of Oscar Wilde explores how his Irish background had a major impact on his life & writings. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1860590020
• ISBN13: 9781860590023
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Town House
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.

Customer Reviews

KNOW YOUR WILDE

Everything you have learned about Mr. Oscar WIlde is a lie. He was a family man with two sons and a loving wife. See Mrs Oscar Wilde: A Woman of Some Importance See Son of Oscar Wilde His mother was a great Irish revolutionary and nationalist poet see Speranza: A Biography of Lady Wilde See Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland or her nationalist poetry as remarked by Nobel Poet Laureate Seamus Heaney in his collection of lectures entitled Preoccupations: Selected Prose, 1968-1978. Oscar was innocent of the charges brought against him by the Marquis of Queensbury, being quickly ram-rodded through a kangaroo court and unimaginably and cruelly imprisoned for the crrime of researching his scathing revelations of the moral corruption of the British aristocracy Read The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde by his grandson. This great study, welcomed by Irish poet Seamus Heaney in the collection of his essays mentioned above, and remarked on the cover "A timely and revealing new focus upon Oscar's Anglo-Irish balancing acts." must come to us as a bolting revelation. Read this book. Know your Wilde. You will come to believe that all of Oscar's life he was prepared to enter subversively the British aristocracy and to overthrow it from within. Read The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest (Oxford World's Classics) and see The Oscar Wilde Collection (The Importance of Being Earnest / The Picture of Dorian Gray / An Ideal Husband / Lady Windermere's Fan) (but not the Rupert Everett version or nearly anything else on recent film) and you will see that he did. The Ideal Husband tells us much about the modern workings of Wall Street and the upper echelons of our govrenment, even more than Greed, and is an excellent play. Read even the subversive work he wrote when broken and destroyed by the cruel injustice which brought his imprisonment and the cruel torture which destroyed his body and his spirit. Read The Soul of Man & Prison Writings, in particular the great Ballad of Reading Gaol and its revelatory condemnation of the prison system we still maintain. Read his Intentions by Oscar Wilde: The decay of lying, Pen, pencil and poison, The critic as artist, The truth of masks and see his brilliance, but above all read this excellent work of interpretation which at long last places the great work of Oscar Wilde in its truest perspective, that of Irish revolutionary at work in London. Read this book. Know your Wilde. Resist. Subvert the empire.

very helpful

This book is really helpful for all those who want to knoweverything about Oscar's early years. It has beautiful pictures anddelightful stories as well, not just the bare facts. A great piece of work!