The British author Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900) was part of the "art for art's sake" movement in English literature at the end of the 19th century. He is best known for his brilliant, witty comedies. Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin,...

Oscar Wilde as man and artist is a study of extremes and contradictions. He approached life empirically, as Walter Pater had taught him at Oxford, but the pupil determined to pursue sensation beyond art into life. Wilde insisted that the two greatest...

] Together with George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde transformed British drama in the late nineteenth century by expressing a new, "modern" sensibility. By the mid nineteenth century, the British theater, though rich in various theatrical forms, such as...

Wilde, Oscar Fingal O s Theory for Social Transformation. New York: Peter Lang, 1996. Raby, Peter, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Schmidgall, Gary. The Stranger Wilde: Interpreting Oscar....

Oscar Wilde - (1854 - 1900) (Full name Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde; has also written under the pseudonyms Sebastian Melmoth and C. 3. 3.) Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, critic, poet, and short story writer. Wilde is one of...

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (October 16, 1854 – November 30, 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and author of short stories. Known for his barbed wit, he was one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London, and one...

Sheridan Morley, a theater critic, broadcaster and author of many show-business biographies, has died at the age of 65.Morley, who wrote for such publications as The Times of London, Punch, The Spectator and the International Herald Tribune, died Friday at home. The BBC reported that...

Irish playwright Oscar Wilde once said, "Life imitates art far more than art imitates life."Students participating in a novel design contest might rephrase the famous quotation to something like, "Art imitates video games that imitate life."Students at Parsons The New School for Design in New...

The Kaiser Chiefs, Razorlight, the Fray and other popular rock groups have joined to record songs from "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" in honor of Friday's 40th anniversary of the Beatles' epochal album.During the special recording session, which airs on BBC Radio 2 on...

In the following essay, Gladden analyzes Oscar Wilde's journal, written under the pseudonym Sebastian Melmoth, in terms of his thoughts about being exiled from England after serving his prison term.

In the following essay, Bristow discusses the defining characteristics of Wilde's plays.

In the following essay, Sinfield explores Wilde's utilization of effeminacy and femininity in his plays.

Discusses the author Oscar Wilde and his novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray. Describes how Oscar Wilde convinces his readers that to embrace one's enemy, in this case the enemy is sin, is to know how to counter it. Further examines Wilde's morality, as depicted in Dorian Gray.

Attempting to define the term art, this essay's author explores writer Oscar Wilde’s take on the subject. The works of painters Andres Serrano and Chris Ofili and writer Jack Kerouac are explored. The argument is made that art defines itself.