Jacob Epstein was very upset. For months, the sculptor had toiled on a memorial tomb for Oscar Wilde, the celebrated—and ...

A theatre company has been given permission to perform inside an empty jail that once held Oscar Wilde. Rabble Theatre's event in the summer will be the first time Reading Prison's doors open to the ...

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.

An Antiques Roadshow guest brought an Oscar Wilde poem for appraisal The poem ... In 1899, the reputed professor was present for the Dreyfus trial and was writing articles about it when he met ...

It’s a greater accolade than a Nobel Prize for Literature – one’s very own adjective. There’s a select few: Shakespearean; Dickensian and Pinteresque. Add to that list, Wildean.

Oscar Wilde was hardly any stranger to controversy ... he was accused of homosexuality and was even dragged into a criminal trial on suspicion of amoral sexual acts. For this, he received two ...