History Trivia / ThePictureOfDorianGray

* TropeNamer;
** PrinceCharming
*** PrinceCharmless
*** PrinceCharmingWannabe

* ReferencedBy: Music/JamesBlunt's ''Tears and Rain'' states that he hides his true nature, "Like Dorian Gray."

* BeamMeUpScotty: A lot of people think the title is ''The '''Portrait''' of Dorian '''Grey''''', perhaps because a picture can incorrectly be understood as a photograph while ''portrait'' is less ambiguously a painting, and the word for the color gray is spelled ''grey'' in British English. Wilde actually did write an unrelated short story called "The '''Portrait''' of Mr. W.H."

!!Adaptations
* DawsonCasting: 20 years old Dorian played by 28 years old Ben Barnes (although admittedly he looks a lot younger than he is), Basil and Henry (around 30) played by 40 years old Ben Chaplin and 49 years old Colin Firth.

* AFIS100Years100Thrills: #86

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/BasilRathbone badly wanted the role of Lord Henry for MGM's 1945 film. When he lost the role to George Sanders, Rathbone blamed it on his association with Sherlock Holmes and swore off the role.

* BeamMeUpScotty: A lot of people think the title is ''The '''Portrait''' of Dorian '''Grey''''', perhaps because a picture can incorrectly be understood as a photograph while ''portrait'' is less ambiguously a painting, and the word for the color gray is spelled ''grey'' in British English.
** Still more confusingly, Wilde actually did write an unrelated short story called "The '''Portrait''' of Mr. W.H."

* DyeingForYourArt: Sybil, metaphorically: she was a perfect actress because she didn't live in reality.

* [[PlayingAgainstType Writing Against Type]]: A horror story, from Oscar Wilde.

* BeamMeUpScotty: For some reason, a lot of people think the title is ''The '''Portrait''' of Dorian '''Grey''''', perhaps because portrait is a more sophisticated word, and the British spelling of "Gray" is more genteel.

* AFI100Years100Thrills: #86

* {{Bowdlerise}} So, so often in the publishing history. First, the typescript Wilde wrote was toned down for the magazine publication (without Wilde having a chance to proof read it). It was still considered too risque for some book sellers to have this magazine edition on their shelves though. Then, when the novel publication rolled around Wilde himself changed several aspects of the novel (probably to avoid possible inquiries about his sex life); for instance he took great pains to mke Dorian more monstrous than in the magazine version and took out a good bunch of the homoeroticism that was left. (the magazine editor himself already had taken a good ton of allusions out before). The result is the version usually found in bookshelves. Now to put this into perspective - this "purged edition" was used as evidence in Wildes trial against him. (If you're curious how the original version reads, rejoice. The uncensored version was first published in 2011.)

* DawsonCasting: 20 years old Dorian played by 28 years old Ben Barnes (although admittedly he looks a lot younger than he is), Basil and Henry (around 30) played by 40 years old Ben Chaplin and 49 years old Colin Firth.

* {{Bowderlise}} So, so often in the publishing history. First, the typescript Wilde wrote was toned down for the magazine publication (without Wilde having a chance to proof read it). It was still considered too risque for some book sellers to have this magazine edition on their shelves though. Then, when the novel publication rolled around Wilde himself changed several aspects of the novel (probably to avoid possible inquiries about his sex life); for instance he took great pains to mke Dorian more monstrous than in the magazine version and took out a good bunch of the homoeroticism that was left. (the magazine editor himself already had taken a good ton of allusions out before). The result is the version usually found in bookshelves. Now to put this into perspective - this "purged edition" was used as evidence in Wildes trial against him. (If you're curious how the original version reads, rejoice. The uncensored version was first published in 2011.)

* {{Bowdlerlise}} So, so often in the publishing history. First, the typescript Wilde wrote was toned down for the magazine publication (without Wilde having a chance to proof read it). It was still considered too risque for some book sellers to have this magazine edition on their shelves though. Then, when the novel publication rolled around Wilde himself changed several aspects of the novel (probably to avoid possible inquiries about his sex life); for instance he took great pains to mke Dorian more monstrous than in the magazine version and took out a good bunch of the homoeroticism that was left. (the magazine editor himself already had taken a good ton of allusions out before). The result is the version usually found in bookshelves. Now to put this into perspective - this "purged edition" was used as evidence in Wildes trial against him. (If you're curious how the original version reads, rejoice. The uncensored version was first published in 2011.)

* {{Bowdlerlization}} So, so often in the publishing history. First, the typescript Wilde wrote was toned down for the magazine publication (without Wilde having a chance to proof read it). It was still considered too risque for some book sellers to have this magazine edition on their shelves though. Then, when the novel publication rolled around Wilde himself changed several aspects of the novel (probably to avoid possible inquiries about his sex life); for instance he took great pains to mke Dorian more monstrous than in the magazine version and took out a good bunch of the homoeroticism that was left. (the magazine editor himself already had taken a good ton of allusions out before). The result is the version usually found in bookshelves. Now to put this into perspective - this "purged edition" was used as evidence in Wildes trial against him. (If you're curious how the original version reads, rejoice. The uncensored version was first published in 2011.)

* DawsonCasting: 20 years old Dorian played by 28 years old Ben Barnes (although admittedly he looks a lot younger than he is), Basil and Henry (around 30) played by 40 years old Ben Chaplin and 49 years old Colin Firth.

!!Adaptations