Sheridan Morley

Oscar Wilde (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

'Oscar's own life was indeed the greatest of all his theatrical productions'

Oscar Wilde was one of the most dazzling figures of the late Victorian age, a wit and playwright whose brilliance illuminated London's social and theatrical world. His plays, from The Importance of Being Earnest to An Ideal Husband, remain among the sharpest and most enduring comedies in the English language.

Yet behind the glitter and epigrams lay a man of complexity and contradiction. Sheridan Morley traces Wilde's rise from gifted Oxford aesthete to celebrated author, and his devastating fall following his trials and imprisonment for "gross indecency". Drawing on letters, reviews and contemporary accounts, Morley paints a portrait of an artist undone by the very society he once delighted, but whose spirit and language have never faded.

This insightful biography captures both the triumph and tragedy of Oscar Wilde - a man whose wit, courage and brilliance made him immortal.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dean Street Press
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781917382335
• Artikelnr.: 76133168

Autorenporträt

Sheridan Morley(1941-2007) was the third generation of a celebrated theatrical family. His father was Robert Morley, the character actor, and his grandmother was Gladys Cooper, in her youth one of the great beauties of her day and a much sought-after actor in Britain and Hollywood. Sheridan was also a cousin of the actress and presenter Joanna Lumley and brother-in-law of the actor Robert Hardy.Morley joined The Times as deputy features editor in 1973, and then Punch in 1975 as drama critic and arts editor, remaining with the magazine until 1989. In the late 1980s, he became a regular arts diarist for The Times and was its TV critic from 1989 to 1990. He worked as drama critic for the Spectator from 1990 to 2001, and after a short period at the New Statesman, he joined the Daily Express in 2004.He married his first wife, Margaret Gudejko, in 1965, and they had three children together. He married his second wife, Ruth Leon, in 1995.He authored a number of books including A Talent to Amuse: A Life of Noel Coward (1969); Gladys Cooper (1979); The Hollywood Raj (1983), The Other Side of the Moon: The Life of David Niven (1985), Odd Man Out: James Mason (1989), Robert: My Father (1993), Oscar Wilde (1976), Elizabeth Taylor: A Celebration (1988), Audrey Hepburn:A Celebration (1993) and Marilyn Monroe (1998). These are now all republished by Dean Street Press.