Editorial Journal of John Cooper on Oscar Wilde
Last Chance to View Lecture
Oscar Wilde on Dress by John Cooper
If you missed my Dress Lecture given on December 6 or wish to view it again (!) the Victorian Society in America has extended availability until January 3, 2026.
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Oscar Wilde on Dress
by John Cooper
DATE: Saturday, December 6 at 2pm EST
(Eastern Standard Time in the US is five hours behind GMT)
Click here to Register: Zoom Webinar.
Welcome to the sixth season of online lectures presented by the Victorian Society in America inspired by their internationally-acclaimed Summer Schools.
This season’s speakers will address a wide variety of subjects including Los Angeles in the Victorian era, the evolution of resort architecture, Oscar Wilde’s philosophy on dress and fashion, a behind-the-scenes look at the preservation of Gilded Age Newport, the Saturday Evening Girls’ club and the Paul Revere Pottery, and the work of British preservationist and architectural historian Gavin Stamp.
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Oscar Wilde’s Lecture Tour 1882
A New Landing Page
On his lecture tour of North America Oscar Wilde conducted 141 lectures over 11 months of 1882.
Now with a new landing page by digital creator Jon Darby, these lecture tour pages document a detailed, comprehensive, and accurate record of Wilde’s tour.
Each lecture has its own page dedicated to illustrating the lecture with details of the date, location, subject, lecture venue, and Wilde’s lodging, along with related ephemera—the standard being that all information is verified by primary sources.
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Late Victorians began to contemplate a bold, astonishing idea: that perhaps women might simply be free to dress… freely.
Sarah Snook Wins The Tony Award
The Picture of Dorian Gray’ on Broadway
As widely expected, and as prefaced in my review of the play, Sarah Snook tonight received the Tony Award for ‘Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play’—for her remarkable performance in an adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.
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TWO NEW OSCAR WILDE PRODUCTIONS
Dorian Gray and Salome on Broadway
Coming to Broadway in New York this Spring are two new productions of Oscar Wilde works—and each for a limited time only.
The Picture of Dorian Gray at the Music Box Theatre, and Salome at The Metropolitan Opera.
See below for details.
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The Ashmolean Museum
ANSELM KIEFER: EARLY WORKS
February 14—June 15, 2025
In 2025 the University of Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum1 opened a major exhibition of the German visionary Anselm Kiefer, describinf as “a landmark survey of the artist’s work produced between 1969-1982.”
So why should this interest Wildeans?
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Magdalen College, Oxford, UK
October 16, 2024—April 16, 2025.
This exhibition commemorates the 150th anniversary of Oscar Wilde’s arrival at Magdalen, exploring his four years as a student of the college, and the sensational life which followed.
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In its second year, Oscariana celebrates the birth of one of Ireland’s greatest sons. Join the good folks at Wilde’s childhood home and other locations in Dublin for a fabulous festival taking place from October 16-20, 2024.
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© John Cooper, 2024