Oscar Wilde is a playwright's playwright. Literally. He wrote only five plays. At least twice that many plays have been written about him. Wilde's best-known work is "The Importance of Being Earnest" ...

He was the man Oscar Wilde went to prison for: his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, the handsome, overprivileged son of the Marquess of Queensbury whom Wilde and others affectionately called Bosie. And ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Over a century after his death, Oscar Wilde is still a contentious character. Many are familiar ...

Cover, endpaper, and text design by Valenti Angelo. Printed on double leaves with uncut fold at top. Issued in case. SALOME : A TRAGEDY IN ONE ACT TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF OSCAR WILDE BY LORD ...

In the 1890s, famed writer Oscar Wilde embarks on a relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas, despite his marriage to Constance. As their relationship creates a public scandal and feeds the outrage of ...

A silver cigarette case that belonged to poet and playwright Oscar Wilde is up for auction in the U.K. on Saturday. The case is described as a unique reminder of Wilde’s love affair with Lord Alfred ...

Oscar's father and mother on trial -- Oscar Wilde as a schoolboy -- Trinity, Dublin: Magdalen, Oxford -- Formative influences: Oscar's poems -- Oscar 's quarrel with Whistler: marriage -- Oscar ...

`I am true Love, I fill the hearts of boy and girl with mutual flame,” Lord Alfred Douglas wrote in 1892, when he was 22. “I am the Love that dare not speak its name.” And oh, he was dangerous, pouty ...