Oscar Wilde, the celebrated Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist, was a master of wit and social commentary. Beyond his well-known plays, Wilde penned a range of prose that continues to ...

Cincinnati was curious about Oscar Wilde, known for his witticisms and fancy clothes, when he gave two lectures at the Grand Opera House in 1882.

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 Tuesday, 02 January 2024 12:17 GMT ...

Oscar Wilde, the 20th century’s most famous sexual dissident, has been dead 100 years to the day. ... Wilde the artist — writing works like “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” “Salomé”; ...

A portrait of the poet and novelist Oscar Wilde, whose The Picture of Dorian Gray inspired a Broadway play on now. As a queer person, Williams understands Wilde’s inclination to compartmentalize.

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 ...

De Profundis MS. This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996.

PARIS, Nov. 30.—Oscar Wilde died at 3 o'clock this afternoon in the Maison du Perier, Due des Beaux Arts, in the Latin Quarter. It is a small, obscure hotel, at which Wilde had been living for ...