Oscar Wilde
Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854–1900)
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Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for gross indecency for consensual homosexual acts in "one of the first celebrity trials", imprisonment, and early death from meningitis at the age of 46.
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Succession star to play 26 parts in West End showSuccession actress Sarah Snook is to star in a one-woman adaptation of Oscar Wilde's only novel, The Picture Of Dorian Gray, coming to the West End next year.Sky News - Published | |
The more cameras the better for me - AinsworthWycombe boss Gareth Ainsworth borrows words from Oscar Wilde following 'access all areas' scrutiny against Portsmouth.BBC Sport - Published | |
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Banksy's £10m pledge for bid to transform prison into a 'refuge for art'Banksy has offered to raise millions of pounds to boost a bid to transform a prison which once held Oscar Wilde into an arts centre.Sky News - Published | |
Brexit, borders and bedlam: The political crisis in Northern Ireland is far from overTo lose one leader may be regarded as misfortune, to lose two looks like carelessness - I'm sure Oscar Wilde will forgive me for plagiarising him.Sky News - Published |
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