Wilde

"Wilde as Philosopher and Cultural Critic," Part III, begins with Leanne Grech's "Imagining Utopia: Oxford Hellenism and the Aesthetic Alternative" and focuses on the author's refutation of Linda Dowling's "influential work [on] Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian England (1944)" (161).

Co-organised by the Embassy of Ireland in Cyprus, the festival (all events of which are completely free of charge) comprises performances, music, movie screenings, workshops, exhibitions of artworks inspired by Wilde, round table discussions on LGBT rights, literature panels and a host of other happenings.

Queensberry was arrested on libel charges and retained as his head attorney Edward Carson, an Irishman who had attended Trinity College with Wilde. The trial began at the Old Bailey in London, where Wilde, under cross-examination, deflected with ease Carson's attempts to verify Queensberry's vulgar note.

The movie leaps through time and across the channel, not very gracefully, to show us Wilde's wife (Emily Watson) and the two young sons for whom he wrote the story that provides the film's title.

In the seven chapters on exile, Frankel thoroughly documents the complex composite of pleasure and pain that characterized Wilde's time on the Continent.

Everett sprinkles his script with familiar examples of Wilde's wit and doesn't overburden it with plot.

In return, Wilde enchants his hosts with passages from The Happy Prince as death beckons.

Everett, who also plays the leading role, said Wilde's story illustrates the struggle of people turned into outcasts for their sexuality that was still happening in some countries such as Russia, Uganda and India.

That is where Wilde grew up, and the state's wide-open landscape and relaxed, Western lifestyle deeply influence her aesthetic.

Wilde fled to Paris in 1897 after serving two years' hard labour for his love affair with Lord Alfred Douglas.

The statement above offers insight into how Oscar Wilde saw the writing project he was engaged in from his cell in Reading Prison.

Although Oscar Wilde's criticism has received little attention, a close reading of the essays in Intentions reveals that these seemingly languid and playful critical writings is a serious defense of the importance of critical thinking and its power to develop not only the individual but also national life; they also expose Wilde's sense of the importance of the act of criticism for reshaping global politics along more equitable lines.

Synopsis: Wilde's Women is the first book to tell the story of the female family members, friends, and colleagues who traded witticisms with Wilde, who gave him access to vital publicity, and to whose ideas he gave expression through his social comedies.

The Kaufman Organization announced that Oscar Wilde's, a Victorian era themed pub, signed a 13-year, 3,638 s/f lease at 45 West 27th Street (45 W27) to bring Kaufman's Madison Square Portfolio's retail spaces to 100 percent leased status.