#oscar wilde play

[elinordash]

Jeremy Brett as Lord Arthur Goring in AN IDEAL HUSBAND (1969)

You see, Phipps, Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.

#an ideal husband #jeremy brett #oscar wilde #perioddramaedit #theatreedit #minee #adaptationsdaily #gifshistorical #userhollywood #bbc play of the month #tvarchive #televisiongifs #tvedit #classicfilmblr #probably the most obscure gifset i've ever made #but LOOK AT HIM

[laurapetrie]

‘The girl never really lived, and so she has never really died.’ SIBYL VANE, the picture of dorian gray (1891)

#i can't believe i've never made a post for sibyl before #i love oscar but i think dorian is a more juvenile work than the plays and the short stories and (obviously) de profundis #but sibyl holds a special place in my memory box #the girl who died for believing in fairy tales 💔 #the picture of dorian gray #oscar wilde #literature #bookedit #*

[couldneverhurtusnow]

[chemistry] it's not a word that actors [use]. but you must endeavor a little bit to try and fall in love, in whatever that capacity is. and andrew is a very easy person to fall in love with. he's kind, generous, talented. we shot the film at the perfect junction in our friendship where there was a lot we didn't know about each other, but there was mutual admiration and respect. and a similar sense of humor. (...) yeah, it felt fizzy when we were acting. especially with that first scene at the door -- it's so well-written. you feel like you're dancing through the scene, you can go in loads of different ways, and if i went one way, andrew would go another. if that's what chemistry is, i was aware it was happening.

-- paul on chemistry and whether ‘they (andrew & paul) knew instantly that their onscreen relationship was working’ in all of us strangers, screendaily.com (1/31/24)

#i just find this whole acting thing & the process actors have to go through very fascinating. how so many of them have said that your -- #mind knows that it's not real; it's make-believe but your body doesn't & it gets blurred & your body gets tricked into thinking it's -- #actually experiencing all of that. no wonder sometimes actors need to take some time to recover from/get over a specific role they played. #i just recently saw claire foy talk about this & how 'you're falling in love with a person you're not in love with.' and there's a -- #psychological thing happening where you can either suspend belief or you can make real what's happening. and that it can get very confusing #& how when she was watching this movie her body would react -- tears & heart palpitations -- but not because of what she saw on screen -- #but because she (her body) was remembering it. it's wild & i don't think i'd ever be able to do it. #reminds me of what jessica chastain said about 'scenes from a marriage' & how her & oscar's years long friendship was changed after that #idk how these people do it; honestly; especially those actors who play really dark characters & put themselves in their minds (evan peters) #paul mescal #andrew scott #all of us strangers

[bunisher]

i just…. still cannot believe that they had frank quote oscar wilde and wear purple and have a whole arc surrounding closeted gay men and expected me not to notice!!!

#frank castle #the punisher #the punisher s2 #(like i understand that billy reading the picture of dorian gray was bc ben barnes plays him in the movie) #(and the themes of beauty + morality + social class that r within it) #(but they could have used stardust just as easily for love + loyalty and a fourth wall break for BB and charlie cox!) #(i just think it’s an interesting choice considering how these r not the only instances of queercoding but the biggest that come to mind) #(oscar wilde’s works are undeniably gay and frank chooses to quote him to billy who he calls pretty later on) #(and the purple shirt specifically with micro is another choice because of how their relationship is portrayed in the comics) #(and comics!frank has such gay behavior it makes u wonder if he ((not ncmu)) was in a lavender marriage) #(i really cannot understate the amount of queercoding and subtext surrounding frank and his clear attraction to men) #(there is very much a deliberate choice with the storylines frank has involving gay men and punisher 2004 did it too) #(and i understand why people assume homophobia based on his character at a quick glance but the source material is soooo gay) #(anyways rant over) #subtext #comics inspired #punisher 2017 #punisher 2004

[a-book-is-a-garden]

“He and I are closer than friends. We are enemies linked together. The same sin binds us.”

- Oscar Wilde, “An Ideal Husband”

#An Ideal Husband #Oscar Wilde #Quote #Play #Literature #Victorian Era #Aestheticism #Irish #19th Century

[onaperduamedee]

On your knees.

#the wheel of time #wot on prime #wotedit #moiraine damodred #Siuan Sanche #siuaraine #mygifs #mine: wot #in this life or the next #You're a cool one #clever as a pike #oscar wilde #de profundis #long post #anyway while making this I was struck by how much of public their love is in a way #they've incorporated rituals from the White Tower into their love language #could be a nice callback to the way queer love is perceived as much more public by straight people #like holding hands or kissing in public becomes either a political performance or transgressive love manifesto #Siuan and Moiraine said yes to both except we'll do that with centuries-old Aes Sedai tradition and rituals #playing with rigid public performances and turning them into something so queer and so personal #transformative compliance #performing rituals allowing them to touch each other in public etc. #if Siuan is holy then she will be worshipped by Moiraine #as simple as that

[do-you-know-this-play]

#the importance of being earnest #oscar wilde #theater #theatre #plays #tumblr polls #gonna start adding production photos #because i think they’re cool as hell

[part-time-deranged]

i have an. unquenchable. need. to look like Michael Sheen in Wilde (1997).

Look at him. Bitch. Bastard. I hate him. I am obsessed with him. I am in a prison of my own creation

#yes hes on the list #adding the (1997) makes it funnier #foaming at the fucking mouth #i want this twink obliterated #oscar wilde #wilde 1997 #michael sheen #good omens #:| #he rly played one twink in 1997 and went aight boys ive found my calling. and then did it for the rest of his career #do not scroll through my liked posts those are forsaken lands #alex funky text posts

[gladumfdoodles]

this is how the Cairo/Damascus arc went, right?

[original image below the cut]

#rqg fanart #rqgaming #hamid saleh haroun al tahan #sasha rackett #rqg azu #grizzop drik acht amsterdam #rqg oscar wilde #I went on a band trip today and drew this while listening to three kids play my singing monsters at full volume at the same time #I went a little bit insane at the end #doodles #gladumf does art

[tleeaves]

Yesterday I went to the library to collect some books (killer plants and sewing related, as separate topics) and I came across a thickass biography of Oscar Wilde. So, naturally, I borrowed it to read.

I think Matthew Fairchild would be both proud and jealous.

#matthew fairchild #oscar wilde #istg this guy pops up everywhere though #from novels to poetry to plays to even LAW of all things #and universities #all for different(ish) reasons ofc

[litandlifequotes]

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

#the importance of being earnest #oscar wilde #play #book #book quotes #quote #words #reading

[just-an-enby-lemon]

I only now realized that there's a genuine possibility that thanks to the party Oscar Wilde actually never wrote anything in the RQ verse or at least never published his works (or did it after they saved the world if they even did).

Because we meet him as the clever journalist known to be cleverly mean to people with witticism that make the coments sound almost polite but still brutal. He was likely already an editor as well. But that's it. He is writing scandalous pieces in the Woman's World and suddently he just has to also be the handler of this group.

By the time things went to shit in Paris he had at most the time to finish The Happy Prince and Other Tales and maybe really maybe publish it. After that he's trying to find a way to escape the mob in desolate Paris as it burned, going to Prague and handling with more party and the cult of Mars in Prague, getting cursed, his whole team disapearing in Rome, the end of the world. At most he had time during the party time in Egypt as he didn't had a lot of handling to do besides making their case for Apophis but he was already following the other leads the party gave him. Not to mention how much of his writing is plays.

Not to say he didn't wrote anything later in whatever free time he had, he was writing in the ship, but it's unlikely he published anything (a case can be made MAYBE for The Happy Prince and Other Tales). Maybe if he survives after the adventure is over and doesn't have too much PTSD? He could publish what he already have and write some more. Even so would he even write the same stuff? Anyway I'm overthinking it.

#i have a lot of unecessary thoughs about how equal/different rqg Wilde's writing would be #rqg oscar wilde #rqg #rusty quill gaming #the idea of wilde just going to the party and making them acting in his plays cause they are the reason he couldn't look for actors + #did cross my mind

[taxi-davis]

#art #film #oscar wilde #play #stage play #one act play #1923 #1920s #20's #drama #silent film #moon #night sky #lipstick #Alla Nazimova

[nine-frames]

"The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means."

The Importance of Being Earnest, 1952.

Dir. & Writ. Anthony Asquith (based on the play by Oscar Wilde) | DOP Desmond Dickinson

#the importance of being earnest #anthony asquith #oscar wilde #british film #uk film #1950s #comedy #stage play #10 frames

[bethanydelleman]

I did an accidental experiment this summer and it really opened my eyes to how we should be experiencing plays as literature. We should be watching them, as intended.

Part of my summer ‘reading’ list was the four drawing room plays by Oscar Wilde. I listened to three of them on LibriVox but my podcast app didn’t have A Woman of No Importance. So I read it. I loved it, but I had a hard time keeping track of all the characters.

Then I found the LibriVox audio version. I loved it more. I could keep track of everyone better. It was a much more rich experience.

Then I found a free version of the play on YouTube. It was professionally done and that is the first time I realized, oh, these people are getting drunk and having affairs off-stage. What didn’t come through either reading or listening was how often people leave and enter the stage as the night goes on (the play takes 24 hours and covers a late night house party). Also how confused they are all getting. It was there all along, the characters had lines, but until I heard and saw, I didn’t get it. I did not understand the whole play.

It just made me think, why do we insist that kids must read Shakespeare at school? I came out thinking that reading was somehow the superior medium, but that is wrong for plays. Plays are meant to be acted! We are meant to hear the intonation of the actors and watch them move around. With plays, reading is the medium that is lesser. Even when we read aloud, we couldn’t really do it properly as teenagers encountering the text for the first time. 

No wonder so many of us hated it!

#plays are meant to be seen #shakespeare #oscar wilde #false reading supremacy #a woman of no importance #I think we would enjoy it a lot more if we focused on watching #it also helps with all the dirty jokes #this is probably not a unique thought #but I wanted to write it down anyway

[wilde-shit-posting]

Things my playwriting class finds important about Oscar Wilde:

-his pet lobster

Things they don't find important:

-being earnest

#the importance of being earnest #Oscar Wilde's pet lobster #they're actually really enjoying reading the play #but we spent a hot moment googling stuff about lobsters #like what came of Oscar's pet lobster? will we ever know?? #also we talked about butt naked bosie after he got zooted