Wilde in New York
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- Опубліковано 26 лип 2024
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Although Wilde is mostly associated with London at his zenith as a playwright, New York City also deserves a special place in his history. It was in New York, in fact, that his first two plays-Vera and The Duchess of Padua-had their world-premiere performances. During his yearlong tour of the United States in 1882, when he was a little-known poet associated with the comic character Bunthorne in Gilbert and Sullivan’s opera Patience, he sojourned in New York several times, establishing important social and artistic connections. Prompting newspaper stories wherever he went, he returned to Europe a genuine celebrity.
MATTHEW STURGIS, author of the recent major biography Oscar Wilde: A Life, is the voice of Oscar Wilde.
JOHN COOPER, author of the vast website Oscar Wilde in America, hosts Part Three, giving us a sample of his celebrated Wilde Walking Tour of New York.
ERIK RYDING, an award-winning author and for years a professor of English literature, is the principal narrator.
Other Voices
SAM TSOUTSOUVAS and DEBORAH BESHAW-FARRELL
with JONATHAN FLUCK
Music by Rodrigo Espina, Étienne Goepp, Christina Kay, Howard Lew, Randall Love, Rebecca Pechefsky, Erik Ryding, Mitchell Vines, John Taylor Ward, Melanie Williams
For John Cooper’s Wilde Walking Tour:
Videographer: Erik Ryding
Audio assistant: Dennis Cembalo
Copyright © 2024 by Quill Classics | Erik Ryding
00:00 Introduction
02:04 PART ONE: The 1882 Lecture Tour
02:57 Aestheticism and Patience
11:37 Arrival in New York
20:52 The English Renaissance lecture
39:04 Lillie Langtry in New York
46:58 Hungry Joe
52:06 PART TWO: Oscar's First Plays
54:29 Vera
1:04:06 Meeting with Thomas Edison
1:07:25 Guido Ferranti (The Duchess of Padua)
1:17:27 PART THREE: John Cooper's Wilde Walking Tour
I'm French and I have the pleasure of regularly paying my respects to Oscar Wilde at Père Lachaise cemetery.
I've visited Oscar's grave at Père Lachaise, too--an extraordinary cemetery.
Wilde was known for his wit and satire, but if you read his letters from Reading Gael he could also be very serious and deep.
Very much enjoyed this beautifully done history. Oscar was SO talented. His life was wasted my small thinking. His incredible depth, stops you to listen. Reading his works is time consuming because, I keep stopping to reread the profound prose.
This is Brilliant. Thank you
Bravo Quill!! What a great pleasure to have this presented to me this evening. As a former denizen of 33 and later 1 Union Square it hit home. Thank you friends.
Many thanks, Sandy! Great to hear from you. Hope you're both well!
must second: “bravo Quill!”
Fascinating on so many levels. Although a life-long New Yorkers and fan of Oscar Wolfe, I learned so muich about the formative time that Wilde spent in New York City in the 1880s. A must-watch for fans of Wilde and those interested in the social and cultural history of New York in the early years of the Gilded Age. The final portion of the film shows the many sites where you can still walk in Wilde's steps.
Thanks so much for your comments!
What a fine and extended overview of Wilde. Who needs Ellman (sic?). We have music and so many great photos and maps and descriptions. Lily Langtry, Edit Wharton, etc. Thank you Quill and all the friends who made this. I still have 45 delicious minutes to go.
Forty five delicious minutes later I have come to the end (for the first time) of this splendid, entertaining, informative and frankly lovely work. Thank you Quill and it was nice to get a quick glimpse (Hitchcock would do it) of Erik. Beautiful and I enjoyed John Cooper's tour. Wonderful!
So glad you enjoyed it, Sandy! Glad you enjoyed my Hitchcock moments :)
Wonderful music and musicians!
How wonderfully entertaining and educational. Wilde in New York is wildly fascinating. Top hats off to the creator and producer, Erik Ryding. The excellent narration, accompanying imagery, and period music create a rich tapestry of Wilde's social and cultural milieu. I wish the History Channel aired this sort of thing, but then again we are lucky to have it right here on UA-cam.
Many, many thanks!
OFF THE CHAIN!!!!°!!! THANKS 200MILL UPLOADER.
fantastic!
Bravo Erik!
Thanks so much, Elisa!
Superb.
Very good
I know Wilde visited Colorado where he was a huge success. So he has to have visited America twice.
Yes, he visited the US in 1882 (pretty much all year) and 1883 (just a few weeks).
I had a book saying he toured the OLD West, was respected by cowboys due to his go9d horsemanship.
@@greglpc-s6178 Yes, Wilde toured most of the USA and some of Canada in 1882.
I really enjoyed this ❤thank you
Heavens! A McDonald's next to the studio.
Times have changed!
No captions, not even auto generated? 😢 Still a good video but it would be better with the option for captions/subtitles.
My iPhone generates auto-captions, so they are an option. Unfortunately I don't know how to engage that function.
@QuillClassics ahh thats unfortunate. Thanks for the reply!
What a strange thought, to live up to the china set you just bought.
I wonder in what regards that was intended.
Were they going to work on having better etiquette at the table, or were they going to serve more elaborate meals?
Maybe they were going to attempt be less clumsy because they accidently break a lot of plates, or perhaps when they argue they start smashing and throwing things in anger.
Since we own this now, we should behave this way...wow, what a philosophy.
Could you imagine applying that to everything?
I imagine there was a fair helping of irony in admiring the beauty of a perfect set of china!
I don't know if this really happened, but Wilde's time in New York may have inspired this joke:
The playwright's admirers had heard he loved anemone flowers. So they ordered dozens of them to welcome him among them. However, there was a mix up at the florist's and instead they were sent a couple of dozen very handsome potted ferns. Naturally they were very upset, but Oscar Wilde had the wit and grace to assuage their emotions.
He is reported to have said, "Gentlemen, ladies, with fronds like these - who needs anemones?"
Unlikely, but quite funny!
What is the piano music played at the "outro"?
The outro following John's walking tour (before the music for the credits) is from the Overture to Gilbert and Sullivan's PATIENCE, performed by Melanie Williams, flute, and Mitchell Vines, piano. The music for the credits is Chopin's Nocturne in D-flat Major, performed by Randall Love.
Life IS unfair 😅
Edison was a great leader of brilliant men of science, perhaps exclaiming the quote about The Atlantic was his way of getting something out of meeting the poet. He was always consolidating.
Consolidating indeed! Ha!
What an excellent documentary. Surprising considering the other content on this channel - perhaps you found your metier. Although I feel it took a lot of effort, if you can keep it up maybe Bram stoker next. You've got my subscription anyway 👌
Many thanks! You might also enjoy my video SARGENT AND MUSIC, which explores Wilde's Tite Street neighbor John Singer Sargent and his passion for music.
@@QuillClassics 👍👌
Napoleon Sarony reminds me of Czar Alexander II of Russia.. His missing hooknose otherwise reminds me of the missing hooknose of Marat Gabidullin.
I think Oscar was a nice looking man. I'm so sorry he was sent to jail. That was unfair