LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ABBREVIATIONS
INTRODUCTION
PART ONE:THE WRITER AND HIS SETTING
Chronology
1 BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL CONTEXT
Family life:Lady Wilde and Mrs Oscar Wilde
Ireland
Homosexuality
The myth of Wilde
PART TWO:AESTHETIC AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
2 CRITICAL WRITINGS
Lectures
Journalism
The Woman’’s World
The Soul of Man Under Socialism’’
Critical dialogues
3 THEATRE PRACTICE AND INNOVATION
PART THREE:CRITICAL SURVEY
4 POETRY
Poems
The Ballad of Reading Gaol
5 SHORT FICTION
The Happy Prince
The House of Pomegranates
Aesthetic criticism
Aaesthetic prose:The Fisherman and his Soul
Newspaper fiction:Lord Arthur Savile’’s Crime and Otheer Stories
6 THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAR
7 SALOME,SALOME,AND SYMBOLIST THEATRE
8 THE SOCIAL COMEDIES
Lady Windermere’’s Fan
A Woman of No Importance
An Ideal Husband
The Importance of Being Eamest
9 LETTERS
De Profundis’’
On prison reform
PART FOUR:REERENCE SECTION
10 WILDE AND HIS CERCLE
Gazetteer
Short glossary of critical terms
Further reading
INDEX
