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Oscar Wilde

Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Brilliant Paradoxes and Corrosive Epigrams; or Why Oscar Wilde Went to Trial

Sos Eltis looks at Oscar Wilde’s 1895 trial.
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Oscar Wilde in Vienna: Pleasing and Teasing the Audience

Sandra Mayer, author of Oscar Wilde in Vienna, argues it was his willingness to both please and tease his audience. His plays skilfully manoeuvre between conformism and subversion, conventionality and innovation.
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Making Oscar Wilde

A Book at Lunchtime seminar with Michele Mendelssohn, literary critic and cultural historian. Dr Sos Eltis (Brasenose, Oxford), Dr Charles Foster (Green Templeton, Oxford), Chaired by Professor Dame Hermione Lee (Wolfson, Oxford).
In Our Spare Times

The life of Oscar Wilde

Oxford students discuss the life of Oscar Wilde.
Oscar Wilde

5. Wilde's Plays

Fifth lecture in the Osar Wilde series. Sos Eltis talks about Oscar Wilde's plays including an Ideal Husband, The Importance of Being Ernest and A Woman of No Importance.
Oscar Wilde

4. Wilde and Sexuality

Fourth lecture in the Oscar Wilde series. Looking at Wilde's sexuality and how it influenced his literature.
Oscar Wilde

3. Art and Morality

Sos Eltis gives the third lecture in the series on Oscar Wilde, focussing on Wilde's concept of morality shown in his works including the Picture of Dorian Gray, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and The Devoted Friend.
Oscar Wilde

2. Wilde, Victorian and Modernist

Sos Eltis gives the second lecture in her series on Oscar Wilde, focussing on his place in the modernist tradition.
Oscar Wilde

1. The Art of Biography and the Biography of Art

First lecture in the Oscar Wilde series in which Sos Eltis talks about Wilde's life and his work, De Profundis.
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Oscar Wilde's Women

Sophie Duncan introduces Oscar Wilde by setting him in an accurate historical context.

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