Robbie Ross - Appearances in Fiction

Appearances in Fiction

  • Ross briefly appears in Pat Barker's novel The Eye in the Door. Ross' part in Noel Pemberton Billing's agitations against him and his circle is mentioned throughout as a backdrop to the main story.
  • The protagonist of Timothy Findley's 1977 novel The Wars, is named after him. Additionally, the historical Ross appears as a character in Findley's novel Pilgrim.
  • Ross was portrayed by Emrys Jones in the 1960 film The Trials of Oscar Wilde.
  • Michael Sheen played Ross in the 1997 biopic Wilde, which starred Stephen Fry as Wilde and Jude Law as Douglas. In the film, Ross is portrayed mainly as a confidante and a good shoulder to cry on.
  • In David Hare's play The Judas Kiss (1998), Ross is a major character in both Act 1, set in 1895 on the evening of the collapse of Wilde's libel case and in Act 2, in Italy in 1897.
  • Ross appears prominently in Dave Sim's Melmoth (ISBN 0-919359-10-8), a graphic novel "short story" (as Sim described it) related to but tangential to his ongoing 6000 page work Cerebus the Aardvark. Melmoth documents the final days of Oscar Wilde with close historical accuracy and with much quoting from primary sources. (The title alludes to Wilde's alias, Sebastian Melmoth, which he adopted following his release from prison.)

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