The Afterlife of Oscar Wilde’s Oral Tales

In his 1912 study of Oscar Wilde, the writer and journalist Arthur Ransome wrote that ‘the flowers of his [Wilde’s] talk bloom only in dead men’s memories, and have been buried with their skulls’.¹ This somewhat romantic notion was by no means the case, especially as regards Wilde’s oral stories, a...

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