It was almost inevitable that Rupert Everett’s career would eventually lead him to starring in and directing a film about Oscar Wilde’s life. The British actor, whose breakout role was in “Another ...

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LONDON, England -- Flamboyant Irish writer and wit Oscar Wilde did not die of syphilis but from a chronic ear infection that spread to the brain, medical experts said. A week shy of the 100th ...

You could say Oscar Wilde invented the viral meme. Aphorisms such as “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go” and “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken” made him a ...

In the foreword of his 2006 biography The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde, author Neil McKenna writes, “Oscar Wilde lived more lives than one, and no single biography can ever compass his rich and ...

Visitors to the grave of the Irish writer and poet Oscar Wilde won't be able to leave a permanent mark on his tomb anymore. Since the '90s, mostly women started leaving lipstick kisses on his tomb in ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In 1893, Irish humorist Oscar Wilde was threatened with blackmail by way of a letter he’d written to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas.

Apart from the fact that one fled to Paris and the other failed to do so, what is the difference between the criminal cases of Roman Polanski and Oscar Wilde? In 1978, anticipating his imprisonment ...

The British Library has reinstated the suspended library card of revered Irish author Oscar Wilde, who died in 1900. Wilde’s access to the British Museum Reading Room was revoked in 1895 after the gay ...

When Oscar Wilde was jailed for "gross indecency," a charge historically used to criminalize gay sex, his library card was revoked. 130 years later, the British Library has re-issued it. Sponsor ...

Oscar Wilde's library card was reissued 130 years after his original was revoked for, 'gross indecency,' by the British Library. The date of Wilde's death, 30 November 1900, has been used as the new ...