![]() ![]() ![]() Yet the tale is told with verve while the glamour and the squalor of Victorian London is vividly evoked with watercolours which come to life as the camera pans across the screen. Oscar Fingal OFflahertie Wills Wilde note 1 (16 October 1854 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. The Wilde episode is hardly groundbreaking and the bare-bones of the story will already be familiar. The series has also investigated the love triangle between Michael Collins, Kitty Kiernan and Collins’ best friend Harry Boland and the relationship between Robert Emmett and Sarah Curran. ![]() On February 1st the BBC will revisit the disastrous libel trial that brought Wilde down, and the central role played by barrister and unionist politician Edward Carson, in Edward Carson and the Fall of Oscar Wilde.īut before that, TG4 explores Wilde’s wild romance with Lord Alfred “Bosie” Douglas as part of its Scéalta Grá na hÉireann season (TG4, 8.30pm). as Stevensons Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Wildes The Picture of Dorian Gray could be read as offering the alternative and silent speech of homosexuality. Last month, jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard s successful dip into opera, 'Champion,' premiered in St. Director Brian Gilbert Writers Julian Mitchell Richard Ellmann Stars Stephen Fry Jude Law Vanessa Redgrave See production, box office & company info Watch on Prime Video rent/buy from 3. But now, a little over 120 years since his death at age 46, and surely as he would have wished, he’s back in the spotlight. 1 Video 30 Photos Biography Drama Romance The turmoil in poet/playwright Oscar Wilde's life after he discovers his homosexuality. British actor Rupert Everett says he believes that more than 100 years after his death, Oscar Wilde is today a Christ figure for the gay community worldwide. Oscar Wilde and his legacy have obviously never gone away. ![]()
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