5/20/2023 0 Comments Oscar wilde by richard ellmann![]() ![]() Her picture was put in the wrong folder in the Roger Viollet archive in Paris, and a sub-genre of Wildean studies was born. ![]() So who is it? The Marquess of Queensberry? It's a real woman, oddly enough - the Hungarian soprano Alice Guszalewicz, who played Salome in the Richard Strauss opera based on Wilde's play in Cologne in 1906. If it isn't him, why should we trust the theory? Ellmann used the photograph to pinpoint Wilde's suppressed homosexuality and veiled transvestism as the key to his character. This tubbily elegant Salome bears an uncanny resemblance to Wilde, and it was almost universally accepted as real. ? The picture of an Egyptian princess in bondage gear salivating over the severed head of John the Baptist was supposed to be Wilde as Salome in a production of his play in 1893. Ellmann certainly thought so and published the photograph in his great book on Wilde in 1987. It's in Richard Ellmann's biography of Wilde. I'm sure I've seen that photograph somewhere before. Not dissimilar in face and build to the great man. Appearance: Fleshy, full-lipped, with flowing hair, and wearing a long skirt, bejewelled brassiere and leather belt. ![]()
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