The poem reveals the mind-numbing conditions and physically exhausting jobs that were relentlessly inflicted on prisoners in Wilde’s day.
Articles on Oscar Wilde
Displaying all articles
The theatre offered queer Victorian men a space to express their identities, at a time when homosexuality was criminalised.
From Beowulf to Paul Keating, trolling has a long history. Social media, however, and Donald Trump, have taken things next level.
Christopher Wheeldon’s new production is a bold and cinematic venture bringing Oscar Wilde’s legacy to the big stage.
The production is doomed by a muddled script and mediocre music.
The stylish Oscar Wilde animation has a distinguished cast, including Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie.
Oscar Wilde’s extraordinary script is delivered with sharp wit by an extraordinary cast and placed within a production that exploits the dialogue for its viciously comic potential.
Computers can now mimic everything from literary characters to Nirvana songs.
Actor Eryn Jean Norvill’s portrayal of all the characters in The Portrait of Dorian Gray triumphantly illustrates Oscar Wilde’s notion of the self as a form of performance.
In Oscar Wilde’s novel, ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray,’ a painted portrait of the protagonist becomes ugly and twisted with age, much like Trump is represented as reflecting all of America’s evils.
Scandals are violent shocks to social systems, yet not all questionable behaviour produces scandal. How can we explain that some figures escape the consequences of their own behavior while others don’t?
Grecian love is often idealised as an respectable model for queer love. However, there’s more pleasure and reality to be found in ancient Rome’s dirtier version
The US president as avant-garde provocateur.
The flamboyant 18th-century ‘Macaronis’ were so called because they were said to prefer continental pasta to good old British roast beef.
Today, beauty counts for little in the judgement of works of art. But our felt experience of beauty connects us with an object’s maker, revealing a pure moment of humanity.
Even the Wolfenden report cited the need to protect the public from that which disgusted them.
Dating apps are convenient – but they lack the sensuality craved by Victorian aesthetes.
Top contributors
-
Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Sydney
-
Professor of Modern History, Keele University
-
Reader in Human Rights Law, Manchester Metropolitan University
-
Associate professor, Australian National University
-
Associate professor, University of Alberta
-
Associate Professor, Management and Entrepreneurship, Santa Clara University
-
Senior Fellow, Said Business School, University of Oxford
-
L’Oréal Professor of Marketing & Associate Dean of Research, Säid Business School, University of Oxford
-
Professor of Modern English and American Literature, University College Dublin
-
Associate professor of CSR, IÉSEG School of Management
-
Associate Professor of Classics & Ancient History, University of New Brunswick
-
Chair Professor of Latin, Durham University
-
Head of the School of Performance, London South Bank University
-
Professor of Media Theory and History, Lancaster University
-
PhD Candidate in Dance and Dance History Tutor, The University of Melbourne