The actor, comedian and raconteur, who would have turned 100 on Sunday, could play humble or haughty, cheeky or Chekhov – but always stole the show
When standup comic Tom Allen received Attitude magaz…
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Oscar not Wilde for vegetarians! Letter discovered at auction reveals legendary playright warned of 'dangers of a diet of green herbs' ⊖⊖
A 139-year-old letter written and signed by legendary playwright Oscar Wilde argues that 'Brussels sprouts make people bloodthirsty'.
65 days ago
Converts by Melanie McDonagh review – the road to Rome Catholicism’s unlikely 20th-century resurgence ○
A thought-provoking examination of the literary stars who became Catholic – from Evelyn Waugh to Muriel Spark
In the five decades between 1910 and 1960, more than half a million people in England and …
71 days ago
‘Why isn’t everyone talking about Domhnall Gleeson?’ Irish actor wins first Hollywood award ⊕⊕
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The US-Ireland Alliance will give the actor the Oscar Wilde award at the event’s 20th anniversary in Los Angeles in March
After a varied career in which he has played a psychopath, a romcom heart-thro…
2 months ago
ANDREW NEIL: Starmer's shape shifting has left Britain with a government we didn't vote for. A reckoning is coming - and it will be devastating ⊖
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To break one manifesto promise may be regarded as unfortunate. To break two in one week is not so much careless - as Oscar Wilde would have it - as par for the course.
3 months ago
‘A girl of genius’: archives unsealed of Amy Levy, queer Jewish writer admired by Oscar Wilde ⊕⊕
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Levy’s work was ‘ahead of her time’ and speaks to current debate around feminism, LGBTQ+ literature and Jewish identity, say researchers
For one of Victorian literature’s most distinctive voices, who …
4 months ago
Stephen Fry is branded 'a gender-bending delight' and the 'trump card' for The Importance of Being Earnest's 'super gay' West End offering - while Olly Alexander is dubbed 'wonderful' ⊕⊕
Stephen Fry and Olly Alexander took to the stage this week to unveil Max Webster's latest take on Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.
Stephen Fry was born to play Lady Bracknell: PATRICK MARMION reviews The Importance of Being Earnest at the Noel Coward Theatre ⊕⊕
PATRICK MARMION: It was surely only a matter of time before Stephen Fry should take to the stage as one of Oscar Wilde's most colourful characters, Lady Bracknell.
6 months ago
Why do family holidays turn me into a sulky teenager again? | Nell Frizzell ○
It is August, so therefore I find myself in the midst of an intergenerational trip – and somehow unearthing a personality I thought I’d shed decades ago
I am not one for aphorisms. I grew up with a wa…
7 months ago
The young Oscar Wilde’s Russian revolutionary drama reveals a playwright divided ○
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Vera; or, The Nihilists concerns a plot to kill a tsar but after Alexander II was assassinated, its London premiere was cancelled. Now receiving a rare production, it captures his conflict between et…