Categories: Literature, Poetry, Seriously Famous, Theatre
Born in Dublin as Oscar Fingal O'Flaherty Wills Wilde. 'Importance of Being Earnest', 'Picture of Dorian Gray', etc. A flamboyant aesthete, he may have been Grossmith's model for the character Bunthorne in a Doyly Carte operetta. Died in Paris. Buried at Père Lachaise cemetery, Paris, in a tomb designed by Epstein.
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London County Council Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, wit and dramatist lived here.
Unveiled by Stephen Fry who played Oscar in the 1997 film "Wilde". Jenkins d...
Westminster City Council The first performances of "A Woman of No Importance...
The four bas-relief panels by Edward Bainbridge Copnall depict the heads of G...
Theatreland - heart of the performing arts in London. St James's Theatre O...
Born 47 Devonshire Street. Author, gallery director and theatre manager. In...
This verse play by TS Eliot concerning the murder of Becket, had its London p...
