Rupert Everett chronicles the dramatic last days of radical 19th-century Irish writer Oscar Wilde in his new film, “The Happy Prince,” slated for release Friday, Oct. 5. Written and directed by ...

The British Library has honoured late Irish writer Oscar Wilde by reissuing a reader's card in his name, 130 years after his ...

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was a brilliant, successful playwright, poet, novelist, and essayist. His 1895 conviction for homosexual sodomy shocked English society. It cast a long, frightening shadow that ...

Constance Wilde knows how she appears to the public after her husband Oscar’s 1895 conviction for so-called acts of gross indecency. “The poor little waif, the blinkered wifey,” Constance says ...

In 1895, when the Marquess of Queensberry–he of the boxing rules–stopped at the private club of Oscar Wilde and left a card addressed to “Oscar Wilde posing Somdomite,” the stylish Wilde, a master of ...

Will we ever catch up to the genius of Oscar Wilde? Now that he's become an icon of gay liberation, international shorthand for "barbed wit" and the namesake of too many gay bookstores that have ...

We remember Oscar Wilde today primarily for his epigrammatic wit — the nineteenth-century bons mots that have lost none of their sharpness or humor over the intervening decades. This was a man whose ...

The Australian Ballet’s premiere of “Oscar,” based on the life of Oscar Wilde, explores the love relationship between two men. By Roslyn Sulcas Boy loves girl. Prince enchanted by princess. Or swan ...

We’re suckers for afternoon tea — those little crustless sandwiches! Scones with clotted cream! Petit fours! So when we heard about Bosie Tea Parlor (10 Morton Street, 212-352-9900) in the West ...

The British Library has honoured late Irish writer Oscar Wilde by reissuing a reader's card in his name, 130 years after his original was revoked following his conviction for "gross indecency". The ...