Oscar Wilde (play)

Oscar Wilde
Written byLeslie Stokes
Sewell Stokes
CharactersOscar Wilde
Frank Harris
Lord Alfred Douglas
Date premiered1936
Original languageEnglish
GenreDrama

Oscar Wilde is a 1936 play written by Leslie Stokes and Sewell Stokes. It is based on the life of the Irish playwright Oscar Wilde in which Wilde's friend, the controversial author and journalist Frank Harris, appears as a character. The play, which contains much of Wilde's actual writings, starts with Wilde's literary success and his friendship with Lord Alfred Douglas, turns into a courtroom melodrama, and ends with Wilde as a broken alcoholic after two years in prison.