Despite editor Frank Harris’s reputation as a rogue, the Irish literary light trusted him, as he approached his death 125 years ago ...

Few people wanted to be seen with Irish playwright in his final days, actor Simon Callow says - but 125 years on, he is ...

An appreciation of playwright Tom Stoppard, known for such plays as 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,' 'Travesties,' ...

The designer, musician and artist Pam Hogg, whose death was announced last week, resolutely declined to give her age in ...

But as the knife descends, “she screams, evidently perceiving how final is finality.” Spark’s kill count is often taken as ...

The playwright offered a kind of on-ramp to the literary canon, a way into a life of unabashed, unstoppable thinking.

Tom Stoppard was cool and clever. His coolness was bound up with his cleverness, but he also had his own photogenic rock ‘n’ ...

Drawing comparisons to the greatest of dramatists, he entwined erudition with imagination in stage works that won accolades ...

How Wilde’s haters and clever manipulation and promotion created the persona of the much loved Wilde. A book mapping Oscar Wilde’s tour of America claims this audacious unknown invented the idea of ...

Oscar Wilde’s Stories for Children, illustrated by Lauren O’Hara, with a foreword by Colm Tóibín, is published by Little ...

Sir Tom Stoppard, who has died at the age of 88, was one of Britain's cleverest playwrights. His writing was witty and ...