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Other Works
Agate, James, Oscar Wilde and the Theatre, The Masque, no. 3 (London: Curtain Press, [1947])
Arnold, Matthew, Culture and Anarchy (1869), The Portable Matthew Arnold, ed. Lionel Trilling (New York: Viking, 1949)
The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde, ed. Richard Ellmann (New York: Random House, 1968)
Auden, W. H., “A Playboy of the Western World: St Oscar, The Homintern Martyr,” Partisan Review, 17 (April 1950)
Bakhtin, Mikhail, Rabelais and His World (Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1964)
Baudrillard, Jean, The Mirror of Production (St. Louis: Telos Press, 1975)
Beckson, Karl, Oscar Wilde: The Critical Heritage (New York: Barnes & Noble, 1970)
Beerbohm, Max, Around Theatres (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1953)
Behrendt, Patricia Flanagan, Oscar Wilde: Eros and Aesthetics (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991)
Bentley, Eric, The Playwright as Thinker (New York: Meridian Books, 1955)
Bird, Alan, The Plays of Oscar Wilde (New York: Harper & Row, 1977)
Booth, Michael R., Victorian Spectacular Theatre 1850-1910 (Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981)
Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde, ed. Peter Raby (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997)
Cambridge Guide to World Theatre, ed. Martin Banham (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988)
Cohen, Ed, Talk on the Wilde Side: Toward a Genealogy of a Discourse on Male Sexualities (New York: Routledge, 1993)
Cohen, Philip K., The Moral Vision of Oscar Wilde (Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1978).
Craft, Christopher, Another Kind of Love: Male Homosexual Desire in English Discourse, 1850–1920 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994)
Croall, Jonathan, Gielgud: A Theatrical Life (New York: Continuum, 2001)
David, Hugh, On Queer Street: A Social History of British Homosexuality 1895–1995 (London: HarperCollins, 1998)
Dawick, John, Pinero: A Theatrical Life (Niwot, Colo.: University Press of Colorado, 1993)
Debord, Guy, Society of the Spectacle (1967) (Detroit: Black and Red, 1977)
Duncan, Barry, The St. James’s Theatre: Its Strange & Complete History 1835-1957 (London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1964)
Ellmann, Richard, Oscar Wilde (London: H. Hamilton, 1987); Ellmann, Oscar Wilde (New York: Alfred Knopf, 1988)
Eltis, Sos, Revising Wilde: Society and Subversion in the Plays of Oscar Wilde (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996)
Ervine, St John, Oscar Wilde: A Present Time Appraisal (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1951)
Esslin, Martin, The Theatre of the Absurd (Garden City, N.Y: Anchor Books, 1961).
Etherege, George, The Man of Mode, or, Sir Fopling Flutter (1676).
Fergusson, Francis, The Idea of a Theater: A Study of Ten Plays: The Art of Drama in Changing Perspective (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1949)
Fineman, Joel, “The Significance of Literature: The Importance of Being Earnest,” October, 15 (Winter 1980), 79-90.
Frankel, Nicholas, Oscar Wilde’s Illustrated Books (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000)
Gagnier, Regenia, Idylls of the Marketplace: Oscar Wilde and the Victorian Public (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1986)
Gillespie , Michael Patrick, Oscar Wilde and the Poetics of Ambiguity (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1996)
Harding, James, Agate (London: Methuen, 1986)
Hobbes, Thomas, Leviathan: or the Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil (1651), ed. Michael Oakeshott ( Oxford: Basil Blackwell, n.d.)
Hobson, Harold, Verdict at Midnight: Sixty Years of Dramatic Criticism (London: Longmans, Green, 1952)
Hobson, Harold, P. Knightly, and L. Russell, The Pearl of Days: An Intimate Memoir of the Sunday Times, 1822-1972 (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1972)
Holland, Merlin, Irish Peacock & Scarlet Marquess: The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde (London: Fourth Estate, 2003)
Hyde, H. Montgomery, Lord Alfred Douglas: A Biography (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1985)
Innes, Christopher, Modern British Drama 1890–1990 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992)
Jackson, Holbrook, The Eighteen Nineties: A Review of Art and Ideas at the Close of the nineteenth Century (1913), Intro. by Karl Beckson (New York: Capricorn Books, 1966).
Jones, Henry Arthur, The Renascence of the English Drama: Essays, Lectures, and Fragments relating to the Modern English Stage (London: Macmillan, 1895).
Kaplan, Joel, and Sheila Stowell, Theatre and Fashion: Oscar Wilde to the Suffragettes (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994)
Kohl, Norbert, Oscar Wilde: Das literarische Werk zwischen Provokation und Anpassung (Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, 1980); Kohl, Oscar Wilde: The Works of a Non-conformist Rebel, trans. David Henry Wilson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989).
Kuhn, Thomas S., The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 2nd edn. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970)
Laver, James, Oscar Wilde, rev. edn. (London: Longman’s, Green, 1963)
McCarthy, Mary ,”The Unimportance of Being Oscar,” Partisan Review, 14, no. 3 (May-June, 1947)
Mason, A. E. W. Sir George Alexander & the St James’ Theatre (London: Macmillan, 1935)
Mason, Stuart, Bibliography of Oscar Wilde, 2 vols. continuously paginated (1914), reprinted (New York: Haskell House, 1972)
Meisel, Martin. Shaw and the Nineteenth Century Theater (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1963)
Merle, Robert, Oscar Wilde: Appréciation d’une oeuvre et d’une destinee (Rennes: Impr. réunies, 1948)
Miller, D. A., The Novel and the Police (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988)
Montague, Charles E. Dramatic Values (London: Methuen, 1911)
Murray, Douglas, Bosie: A Biography of Lord Alfed Douglas (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2000)
Nassar, Christopher S., Into the Demon Universe: A Literary Exploration of Oscar Wilde (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974)
Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest: Modern Critical Interpretations, ed. Harold Bloom (New York: Chelsea House, 1988)
Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest: A Reconstructive Critical Edition of the Text of the First Production, St James’s Theatre, London, 1895, ed. Joseph Donohue with Ruth Berggren, Princess Grace Irish Library 10 (Gerrards Cross, Bucks.: Colin Smythe, 1995), cited as Reconstructive Edition (1995)
O’Sullivan, Vincent, Aspects of Wilde (London: Constable, 1936)
Pater, Walter. The Renaissance. (1873)
Pearson, Hesketh, The Life of Oscar Wilde, 2nd edn. (London: Methuen, 1954)
Powell Kerry, Oscar Wilde and the Theatre of the 1890s (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990)
Professions of Desire: Lesbian and Gay Studies in Literature, ed. George E. Haggerty and Bonnie Zimmerman (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1995)
Raby, Peter, Oscar Wilde (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988).
Ransome, Arthur, Oscar Wilde, A Critical Study (London: Martin Secker, 1912)
Roditi, Edouard, Oscar Wilde (Norfolk, Conn.: New Directions, 1947)
San Juan, Epifanio, Jr., The Art of Oscar Wilde (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1967)
Schroeder, Horst, Additions and Corrections to Richard Ellmann’s Oscar Wilde, 2nd edn., revised and enlarged (Braunschweig: Privately printed, 2002)
Seeney, Michael, From Bow Street to the Ritz: Oscar Wilde’s Theatrical Career from 1895 to 1908 (High Wycombe: Rivendale Press, 2015)
Seyler, Athene, The Craft of Comedy: An Exchange of Letters on Comedy Acting Techniques with Stephen Haggard (1943) (London: Nick Hern Books, 1990)
Sharp, Robert, “Playfair, Sir Nigel Ross,” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, on-line edition (January 2011) accessed 3 December 2015
Shaw, George Bernard, Our Theatres in the Nineties, 3 vols. (London: Constable, 1932).
Shewan, Rodney, Oscar Wilde: Art and Egotism (London: Macmillan, 1977)
Shellard, Dominic, and Steve Nicholson, with Miriam Handley, The Lord Chamberlain Regrets . . . : A History of British Theatre Censorship (London: British Library, 2004)
Sinfield, Allan, The Wilde Century: Effeminacy, Oscar Wilde and the Queer Moment (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994)
Sloan, John, Oscar Wilde, Oxford World’s Classics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003)
Small, Ian, Oscar Wilde: Recent Research: A Supplement to ‘Oscar Wilde Revalued (Greensboro, N.C.: ELT Press, 2000)
Small, Ian, Oscar Wilde Revalued: An Essay on New Materials & Methods of Research (Greensboro, NC: ELT Press, 1993)
Sorell, Walter, Facets of Comedy (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1972])
Stokes, John, In the Nineties (London: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1989)
Stokes, John, Oscar Wilde (London: for the British Council, Longman Group, 1978)
Stokes, John, Oscar Wilde: Myths, Miracles, and Imitations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996)
Stokes, John, Resistible Theatres: Enterprise and Experiment in the Late Nineteenth Century (London: Paul Elek, 1972)
Sullivan, Kevin, Oscar Wilde (New York: Columbia University Press, 1972)
Symons, Arthur, A Study of Oscar Wilde (London: Charles J. Sawyer, Grafton House, 1930)
Tanich, Robert, Oscar Wilde on Stage and Screen (London: Methuen, 1999)
Varty, Anne, A Preface to Oscar Wilde (London: Addison Wesley Longman, 1998)
Victorian Theatre: The Theatre in Its Time, ed. Russell Jackson (Franklin, N.Y.: New Amsterdam, 1994)
Wearing, J. P. The London Stage 1890-1899: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. 2nd edn. (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefeld, 2014.)
Wearing, J. P. The London Stage 1900-1909: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. 2nd edn. (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefeld, 2014.)
Wearing, J. P. The London Stage 1910-1919: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. 2nd edn. (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefeld, 2014.)
Wearing, J. P. The London Stage 1920-1929: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. 2nd edn. (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefeld, 2014.)
Wearing, J. P. The London Stage 1930-1939: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. 2nd edn. (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefeld, 2014.)
Wearing, J. P. The London Stage 1940-1949: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. 2nd edn. (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefeld, 2014.)
Whitaker, Thomas R., Mirrors of Our Playing: Paradigms and Presences in Modern Drama (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999).
Wilde: Comedies: A Casebook, ed. William Tydeman (London: Macmillan, 1982)
Wilde, Oscar, An Ideal Husband, By the Author of Lady Windermere’s Fan (London: Leonard Smithers, 1899)
Wilde, Oscar, The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde, ed. Merlin Holland and Rupert Hart-Davis (London: Fourth Estate, 2000)
Wilde, Oscar, The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, Vol. III, De Profundis, ed. Ian Small (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005)
Wilde, Oscar, The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, Vol. IV, Criticism, ed. Josephine Guy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)
Wilde, Oscar. Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, Vol. V, Plays 1, ed. Joseph Donohue (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).
Wilde, Oscar. The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, Vols. IX and X, Plays 2 and Plays 3, ed. Joseph Donohue (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019).
Wilde, Oscar, The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, Vol. 8, The Importance of Being Earnest, Introduction by John Drinkwater (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page, 1923)
Wilde, Oscar, The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People, by the Author of Lady Windermere’s Fan (London: Leonard Smithers, 1899)
Wilde, Oscar, The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People, ed. Russell Jackson, New Mermaids (London: Ernest Benn; New York: W. W. Norton, 1980)
Wilde, Oscar, The Importance of Being Earnest A Trivial Comedy for Serious People in Four acts as Originally Written by Oscar Wilde, ed. Sarah Augusta Dickson, 2 vols. (New York: The New York Public Library, 1956)
Wilde, Oscar, The Importance of Being Earnest, ed. Henry Popkin (New York: Avon Theatre Library, 1965)
Wilde, Oscar, The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays, ed. Sylvan Barnet Signet Classics (New York: New American Library, 1985)
Wilde, Oscar, The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays, ed. Richard Allen Cave (London: Penguin Books, 2000).
Wilde, Oscar, The Importance of Being Earnest and Related Writings, ed. Joseph Bristow (London: Routledge, 1992)
Wilde, Oscar, Oscar Wilde: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. Richard Ellmann (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1969)
Wilde, Oscar, The Importance of Being Earnest. The Dramatic Works of Oscar Wilde (London: Samuel French, n.d. [1903])
Wilde, Oscar, The Letters of Oscar Wilde, ed. Rupert Hart-Davis (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962)
Wilde, Oscar, The Original Four-Act Version of The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People, ed. Vyvyan Holland (London: Methuen, 1957)
Winwar, Frances, Oscar Wilde and the Yellow ’Nineties, Foreword by Lord Alfred Douglas (Garden City, N.Y.: Blue Ribbon Books, 1940)
Woodcock, George. The Paradox of Oscar Wilde (London, New York: T. V. Boardman, 1950)
Worth, Katharine, The Irish Drama of Europe from Yeats to Beckett (London: Athlone Press, 1986)
Worth, Katharine, Oscar Wilde, Grove Press Modern Dramatists (New York: Grove Press, 1983)