Wilde expanded his story, turning it into a hybrid of fiction and criticism, and in the process used it as a vehicle to describe his view of the relationship-physical, artistic, and spiritual-between Shakespeare and a (fictitious) boy-actor in his company, the 'Mr W.H.' of the title and of the dedication of the first printing of Shakespeare's Sonnets. Wilde also wrote stories which were not collected, most importantly a jeu d'esprit on the identity of the addressee of Shakespeare's Sonnets-'The Portrait of Mr W.H.', a piece which appeared in periodical form in the late 1880s. The substantial commentary provides a full critical annotation of each story. The textual and printing history of each of these volumes is described and explored in detail. This edition also includes Wilde's second volume of fairy stories, A House of Pomegranates (1891) this volume comprised tales written for adults, and contained Decadent and what can be seen as highly sexualized themes. In many ways these stories anticipate both the themes and the devices of Wilde's later and highly successful society comedies, including Lady Windermere's Fan and The Importance of Being Earnest. This edition then prints Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (1891), Wilde's volume of short tales satirizing the manners and morals of London's elite in the last decades of the nineteenth century-those 'upper ten thousand', as Max Beerbohm later called them. The first of these was The Happy Prince (1888), a volume which was aimed at the children's market, and which capitalized on the growing popularity of fairy stories in nineteenth-century Britain. This edition collects and prints all of Oscar Wilde's short fiction, principally the three collections of tales published in the late 1880s and early 1890s. Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Global Public Health.The European Society of Cardiology Series.

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