Description |
1 DVD (approximately 50 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. |
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optical |
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stereo |
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video file |
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DVD video |
Series |
Biography
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Biography (A & E Home Video (Firm))
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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.
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Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. |
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Authors, Irish -- 19th century -- Biography.
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Authors, Irish. |
Chronological Term |
19th century |
Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Subject |
Gay men -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Gay men. |
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Great Britain. |
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Trials (Sodomy) -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century.
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Trials (Sodomy) |
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England -- London. |
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History. |
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Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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Social conditions. |
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Great Britain -- Civilization -- 19th century.
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Civilization. |
Genre/Form |
Biographical television programs.
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Biographical television programs.
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Video recordings.
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Video recordings.
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Subject |
Gay men. |
Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Added Author |
Berg, Andrew D.
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Smith, Harry, 1951-
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Holland, Merlin.
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Schenkar, Joan.
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Belford, Barbara.
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Hitchens, Christopher.
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Edwards, Owen Dudley.
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Murray, Douglas, 1979-
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History Channel (Television network)
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Arts and Entertainment Network.
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A & E Home Video (Firm)
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New Video Group.
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Added Title |
Biography (Television program)
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ISBN |
0767081978 |
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9780767081979 |
Standard No. |
733961727920 |
Music No. |
AAE-72792 A & E Television Networks |
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