Title: The secret fall of Constance Wilde
First published: 1997
Description: A luminous drama about Wilde's wife's struggle for redemption. The play traces the hidden life of Constance Wilde. Her story explores the gender and sexuality of people who "belonged to the future," and untangles the shifting lines in the complex relationship between her, her husband, and his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. Through a drama of magical transformations and mysterious, masked figures, set against the back-ground of one of the most notorious cases in British legal history, Kilroy divines the cost of the characters' conduct, Oscar's plea for salvation in Constance's eyes, and her heroic exertion to reclaim a state of grace.
Subjects: Drama, Authors' spouses, Gay men, Marriage
Places: Great Britain
People: Constance Wilde (1858-1898), Alfred Bruce Douglas Lord (1870-1945), Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
LC classification: PR6061.I38 S43 1997