John Cooper on Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde : The Artist as Dreamer Feasting With The Greeks The pathways of the poets are often traversed by dreamers destined to wake up one day to the dangers of the real world. One such idealist in Victorian London was Oscar Wilde who, in the homophobic 1890s, was often to be found obliviously “feasting with panthers”1 in fashionable restaurants such as Kettner’s. Continue reading Dream…

A New Video Documentary by Erik Ryding From Quill Classics comes a new full length video documentary written and directed by Erik Ryding: Wilde in New York. Although Oscar Wilde is mostly associated with London at his zenith as a playwright, New York City also deserves a special place in his history. It was in New York, in fact, that his first two plays—Vera and The Duchess of Padua—had their…

New book: Oscar Wilde On Dress.

Late Victorians began to contemplate a bold, astonishing idea: that perhaps women might simply be free to dress... freely. Amidst an unlikely confederation of physicians, clothing designers, teetotalers, feminists, sexologists, actors & artists this wild notion found its most eloquent proponent in Oscar Wilde.

Extravagantly designed & copiously illustrated, this facinating book will be of profound interest not just to Wildeans & students of fashion, but anyone interested in aesthetics, beauty & freedom.