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Title Oscar Wilde : wit's end / written, produced and directed by Andrew D. Berg ; produced by History Television Productions ; A & E Television Networks.

Publication Info. [New York] : A & E Home Video : Distributed by New Video Group, [2005]

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 Moore Video  PR5823 .O83 2005    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
Description 1 DVD (approximately 50 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
digital
optical
stereo
Dolby
video file
DVD video
Series Biography
Biography (A & E Home Video (Firm))
System Details DVD; Dolby Digital stereo.
Performer Host, Harry Smith ; commentators: Merlin Holland, Joan Schenkar, Barbara Belford, Christopher Hitchens, Owen Dudley Edwards, Douglas Murray ; actors, Thomas Adès, André Privateer ; voice of Oscar Wilde, Felix Van Dijk.
Credits Camera, Russ Marhull and others ; editor, E. Donna Shepherd.
Note Originally broadcast in 2001 on the A & E television series Biography.
Audience MPAA rating: Not rated.
Summary Oscar Wilde was a prolific talent who ignored the boundaries in his art and his life. As a writer, he mastered many disparate forms: poems, essays, novels, plays and children's stories. His best-known work, The Picture of Dorian Gray, cemented his reputation as the most colorful force in the drab gray of Victorian England. But the nonconformity he expressed in his works and his appearance--he was famously flamboyant--would soon bring the Irish-born writer to despair. From his days at Oxford to the revelation of his homosexuality which resulted in a trial that led to his incarceration in the Reading Jail, traces the life of the legendary writer and wit.
Subject Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900.
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900.
Authors, Irish -- 19th century -- Biography.
Authors, Irish.
Chronological Term 19th century
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Gay men -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Gay men.
Great Britain.
Trials (Sodomy) -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century.
Trials (Sodomy)
England -- London.
History.
Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Social conditions.
Great Britain -- Civilization -- 19th century.
Civilization.
Genre/Form Biographical television programs.
Biographical television programs.
Video recordings.
Video recordings.
Subject Gay men.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Added Author Berg, Andrew D.
Smith, Harry, 1951-
Holland, Merlin.
Schenkar, Joan.
Belford, Barbara.
Hitchens, Christopher.
Edwards, Owen Dudley.
Murray, Douglas, 1979-
History Channel (Television network)
Arts and Entertainment Network.
A & E Home Video (Firm)
New Video Group.
Added Title Biography (Television program)
ISBN 0767081978
9780767081979
Standard No. 733961727920
Music No. AAE-72792 A & E Television Networks