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Oscar Wilde
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48 days ago
Flamboyance by Jack Parlett review – a serious study of the spectacular ⊖
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
What does it mean to push the boat out, and can peacocking be more than just a beautiful gesture?
A friend’s mother once told me that for a couple of years in the 1980s – as the Conservatives were wag…
55 days ago
I devoured classic novels as a teenager. In a world of distractions, can I relearn how to read them? ⊕
In less than a decade, surrounded by screens, I lost my ability to read some of the best books ever written. But, inspired by the Guardian’s 100 best novels list, I was determined to get it back
It is…
68 days ago
Hidden away in a Victorian album... a photo of Oscar Wilde as a student ⊕
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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail
Oscar Wilde is at the centre of a fascinating tale about a picture after a photo from his Oxford days was discovered.
70 days ago
Woken review – shonky post-apocalyptic horror sends an amnesiac into the plague zone ⊕
The acting is fine and the imagery brooding, but this tepid sci-fi – all creepy neighbours, hazmat squads and crustacean-faced infected – is in thrall to better films
To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, gettin…
73 days ago
An Ideal Husband review – Oscar Wilde’s comedy gets the gleefully camp glow-up it deserves ○
Lyric Hammersmith, London
The dissolute aristocrats from 1895 remain sharply funny, and bitingly relevant, in this flamboyant new spin
Oscar Wilde’s comedy was billed as a “play of modern life” when i…
89 days ago
Mission accomplished as king’s speech to Congress goes down a storm ⊕
Charles quoted Wilde and Dickens in measured masterclass – and no tirade as yet from mad monarch in White House
A flick of Oscar Wilde here, a nod to Henry Kissinger there, a sprinkling of Charles Dic…
3 months ago
The other WILDE child: Oscar Wilde's brother was once tipped as the star in the family, until alcoholism and laziness led to him scandalising Victorian society nearly as much as his brother ⊖
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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail
Oscar Wilde's older brother was a talented playwright who showed more promise than his younger sibling… yet he ended up a broken, disillusioned failure
New York $3mn literature trove returned to Whitney heirs 40 years after theft ○
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a story from Financial Times ✅ › Financial Times
Rare books collection, including work by John Keats and Oscar Wilde, will be auctioned
5 months ago
‘He loved showing his bum. Loved it’: the subversive genius of Kenneth Williams ⊕⊕
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…