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You could be Oscar Wilde, and no one would go home from a party saying, "Gee, Oscar was witty tonight."
Parker's "tribute" ends up making Wilde seem both prolix and irrelevant.
Theater -- Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde .
To appreciate the complexity of his sexuality, consider the current crop of Wilde plays: The Judas Kiss focuses on his love affair with a man, Gross Indecency focuses on his denials of his love affairs with men, and The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde focuses on his love affair with a woman.
This idea is probably more Shavian (or Ibsenite) than Wildean, but the larger point is clear: that Wilde was more concerned with exploding the notion of an "ideal" person than with punishing Chiltern's sin, and in showing that part of becoming human is learning to forgive others' lapses.