The Scandalous History of Oscar Wilde’s Memorial Tomb
Jacob Epstein was very upset. For months, the sculptor had toiled on a memorial tomb for Oscar Wilde, the celebrated—and ...
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The Scandalous History of Oscar Wilde’s Memorial Tomb
For months, the sculptor had toiled on a memorial tomb for Oscar Wilde ... a letter Wilde wrote while in prison.) Epstein ...
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Actor and activist Mark Rylance: 'Brian Haw sacrificed his mind and body for peace'
As a statue of activist Brian Haw is unveiled, Mark Rylance reflects on his message and the lessons we should learn from his ...
The Irish Times24d
Twist by Colum McCann: Surprising and electric, a wired-up story of what it means to bend yourself into new shapes
The pace of his prose carries the reader along, as does the sweep of his settings as Twist follows a course from Dublin to Cape Town to the west coast of Africa and back to London, with a flourish ...
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Mapping The London Of Sherlock Holmes
No fictional character is so intimately associated with London. The very name of Sherlock ... It was here that editor JM Stoddart commissioned Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray and ...
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Premier League fans are revolting – but for very different reasons
Next to the “United Trinity” statue of George Best ... It calls to mind Oscar Wilde’s famous line about the definition of a cynic as “a man who knows the price of everything and the ...
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Requeering Wilde
The Oscar Wilde Temple first opened in 2017, in the basement of the Church of the Village in Greenwich, New York. Wilde is glorified on a plinth: a creamy statue dressed as a ... in 1985, the London ...
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Whose plays are second only to Shakespeare’s as the most studied and translated from English?
He was buried in Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris. Far from him being forgotten, his tomb had to be protected – from admirers, ...