The British Library has announced it will posthumously reinstate gay poet and playwright Oscar Wilde’s reader pass after revoking it in 1895 due to his homosexuality. Known at the time as the ...

Merlin Holland, grandson of Oscar Wilde, tells the story of the playwright’s downfall. Merlin Holland, ... style, his shtick, as you might say, that--to be rather lordly and, uh, ...

Why Oscar Wilde’s Play About a Biblical Temptress Was Banned From the British Stage for Decades “Salome,” a one-act tragedy by the Irish playwright, terrified the Victorian public with its ...