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Who owns this image of Oscar Wilde? How a portrait of Oscar Wilde led to legislation making photographs copyrightable works.
Even with his prodigious talent for notoriety, it is doubtful Oscar Wilde could have inveigled the United States Supreme Court into featuring his image in a landmark judicial decision.
Oscar Wilde’s Art of Disobedience Revisiting his critical writing, we learn a valuable lesson about the critic’s role in refusing bad taste and bad politics.
African-American stereotype: Oscar Wilde was reduced to a collection of symbols – sunflowers, knee breeches and silk stockings – and characterised as “Mr Wilde of Borneo”.
As a playwright, Oscar Wilde turned out perfectly polished, covertly queer drawing-room comedies. So this loud, proud “dystopian dance party” inspired by his life would no doubt have him ...
Merlin Holland, Wilde's grandson, said the lipstick had become a "serious problem" because the grease sinks into the stone. "Every cleaning was causing a bit more stone to wear away," he said. "No ...
Oscar Wilde's century-old play takes a satirical jab at Britain's upper class during the Victorian era. It plays at the Walnut Street Theatre through Jan. 22.
Did Edward Carson destroy Oscar Wilde? In a new documentary set to screen on BBC NI, Wilde's grandson Merlin Holland asks if Carson deserves the reputation as the man who took down his grandfather ...
Oscar Wilde was a child at the time of the American Civil War; he was just eleven when the war ended in 1865. But there are intriguing connections.
Spontaneity and connection are celebrated in ...Earnest, a tumultuous twist on Oscar Wilde’s classic play, in which audience members take centre stage.