Tag Archives: Oscar Wilde

Recommended: Biographies

Posted on May 1, 2020 by sheila

For starters: My recommended Fiction books My recommended Non-Fiction books BIOGRAPHIES: American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson, by Joseph Ellis I’ve written a lot about Joseph Ellis’ work here. While I love David McCullough’s work so much, Ellis is … Continue reading →

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Interpreting Lady Macbeth: Sarah Siddons vs. Ellen Terry

Posted on April 23, 2020 by sheila

For Shakespeare’s Birthday Ellen Terry Sarah Siddons Michael Holroyd’s A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving, and Their Remarkable Families tells the story of 19th century theatre-manager Henry Irving, and his lead actress Ellen Terry. … Continue reading →

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More 2018 Movies to See

Posted on December 13, 2018 by sheila

So all this Top 10 stuff gets a little bit too competitive for me sometimes. There can’t be a “winner” anyway, in art. It doesn’t work like that. This has been a really good year and I’ve seen a lot … Continue reading →

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October 2018 Viewing Diary

Posted on November 9, 2018 by sheila

Supernatural, Season 11, episode 4 “Baby” (2015; d. Thomas J. Wright) This episode just grows in stature the further away we get from it. It’s quite brilliant. Mandy (2018; d. Panos Cosmatos) I went into Mandy not knowing much about … Continue reading →

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For Film Comment: On The Canterville Ghost (1944)

Posted on October 17, 2018 by sheila

This marks my third piece this month having to do with Oscar Wilde. My latest for Film Comment is a review of the film adaptation (one of many) of Wilde’s ghost story The Canterville Ghost. This one stars Charles Laughton. … Continue reading →

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Review: The Happy Prince (2018)

Posted on October 10, 2018 by sheila

The Happy Prince is Rupert Everett’s debut as a writer/director. He also stars, playing Oscar Wilde in the final 3 years of his life – a period which has always fascinated me (and haunted me). My review of The Happy … Continue reading →

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Snapshots

Posted on July 18, 2016 by sheila

It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these, which used to be a regular feature. — I went to the beach on Saturday to escape the mugginess, the stickiness, and because I am bogged down with two deadlines, … Continue reading →

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The Books: The Redress of Poetry; ‘Speranza in Reading: On “The Ballad of Reading Gaol”,’ by Seamus Heaney

Posted on January 13, 2015 by sheila

On the essays shelf (yes, there are still more books to excerpt in my vast library. I can’t seem to stop this excerpts-from-my-library project. I started it in 2006!) NEXT BOOK: Seamus Heaney’s The Redress of Poetry. “Speranza” was the … Continue reading →

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The Books: Oscar’s Books, by Thomas Wright

Posted on October 24, 2011 by sheila

Daily Book Excerpt: Biography Next biography on the biography shelf is Built of Books: How Reading Defined the Life of Oscar Wilde, by Thomas Wright It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of … Continue reading →

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The Books: Oscar Wilde, by Richard Ellmann

Posted on October 23, 2011 by sheila

Daily Book Excerpt: Biography Next biography on the biography shelf is Oscar Wilde, by Richard Ellmann Of late I have been studying with diligence the four prose poems about Christ. At Christmas I managed to get hold of a Greek … Continue reading →

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