The poor can think of nothing else.‘”Ĭonnolly goes on to explain, “ When I think of ‘Oscar,’ it is against a background of servants, of butlers announcing him and footmen with salvers, of a hansom cab hired by the day, the driver nodding under his tarpaulin while Wilde and Bosie display far into the night.” ‘There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. In some cases he is both: thus The Soul of Man Under Socialism in places seems almost inspired it is a breath of fresh air in which the idealistic aspects of Socialism (or Christian Democracy) have seldom been so well expressed - in his denunciation of private property for example. “ Wilde is Wilde in these essays and seldom ‘Oscar,'” Connolly noted with justifiable admiration. Reviewing a collection of Oscar Wilde’s critical writings almost 30 years ago, Cyril Connolly made a useful distinction between “Wilde” and “Oscar,” the two sides of the same man. With Cate Blanchett, Minnie Driver, Rupert Everett, Julianne Moore, Jeremy Northam, John Wood, Lindsay Duncan, Peter Vaughan, and Jeroen Krabbe.
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