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Exiled to the Colonies: 'Oscar Wilde' in Australia, 1895-1897

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From: Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film
Date: 20030101
Author:Fotheringham, Richard

When Oscar Wilde was imprisoned in 1895, his plays were withdrawn from the London stage and, as Joel Kaplan and Sheila Stowell note, 'exiled to the provinces and played with their author's name discreetly removed.' Reinstating them on the London stage was a protracted exercise in 'dissociating the plays from . . . their author's irredeemable behavior,' with Wilde's plays not reappearing in London theatres until several years after his death in Paris in 1900, and even then with his name still omitted from the advertising playbills.1

The situation in Australia was radically different: there ...

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