Full of wit and insight into two of the most influential figures in the arts world of their day, the solo play emphasizes the ...

Now — 130 years on — the British Library has announced it will symbolically reinstate Wilde's Reader Pass, handing it to Wilde's only grandson Merlin Holland in October 2025 at a special event ...

Oscar Wilde’s bed and desk, once rescued from forced sheriff’s auction by friends, go under the hammer Wilde’s famously opulent Chelsea home was found nearly empty by valuers after court ...

“Oscar Wilde is celebrated today for his writings and his many quotable witty sayings, so it’s easy to forget that at the time of his death he was seen as a criminal and an outcast by many ...

In 2021, Banksy revealed a mural of Oscar Wilde, clad in prisoner garb, making an escape from the abandoned Reading jail. The artist claimed that he would donate profits from the sale of the ...

In 2021, Banksy revealed a mural of Oscar Wilde , clad in prisoner garb, making an escape from the abandoned Reading jail. The artist claimed that he ...

Oscar Wilde’s prison cell in Reading Gaol as it appears today. Jack1956/Wiki Commons “Like ape or clown, in monstrous garb,” he writes, the inmates silently trudge the prison yard in their one ...

DEATH OF OSCAR WILDE; He Expires at an Obscure Hotel in the Latin Quarter of Paris. Is Said to Have Died from Meningitis, but There Is a Rumor that He Committed Suicide.

ALTHOUGH "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" was written subsequently to Oscar Wilde's release from prison, a manuscript actually composed within his cell has been placed in hands of a London publisher ...

The Broadway debut of a thrilling new The Picture of Dorian Gray underscores the timeless appeal of a 19th-century literary firebrand 125 years after his death.

Constance Wilde, Oscar’s devoted wife, endured heartbreak, betrayal, and tragedy — her story deserves to be remembered ...

Jacob Epstein was very upset. For months, the sculptor had toiled on a memorial tomb for Oscar Wilde, the celebrated—and often vilified—author of works like The Picture of Dorian Gray. When he ...