Wilde

[wahyld]

noun

1. Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) Sebastian Melmoth, 1854–1900, Irish poet, dramatist, novelist, essayist, and critic.

Wilde

/ waɪld /

noun

1. Oscar ( Fingal O'Flahertie Wills ). 1854–1900, Irish writer and wit, famous for such plays as Lady Windermere's Fan (1892) and The Importance of being Earnest (1895). The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) is a macabre novel about a hedonist and The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898) relates to his experiences in prison while serving a two-year sentence for homosexuality

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Parisians are being offered the chance to win a burial spot among some of history's most famous artists, including the Doors' Jim Morrison, author Oscar Wilde and legendary French singer Edith Piaf.

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Wilde, Mr. Delbourgo writes, introduced the 20th-century image of the collector as a “closet homosexual and sociopath” who is “so pathologically weak, he is dangerous.”

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"And thank God someone came in and he didn't hear me say it. I was mixing him up with when he played Oscar Wilde. I could picture him in his cell," she told the newspaper.

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The British Library has honoured late Irish writer Oscar Wilde by reissuing a reader's card in his name, 130 years after his original was revoked following his conviction for "gross indecency".

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Adding to the sense of showering Wilde’s comedy in a hail of sequined queerness is the casting of Stephen Fry as the imperious Lady Bracknell.

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