"Salome," a one-act tragedy by the Irish playwright, terrified the Victorian public with its provocative depiction of a ...

It’s a greater accolade than a Nobel Prize for Literature – one’s very own adjective. There’s a select few: Shakespearean; Dickensian and Pinteresque. Add to that list, Wildean.

For months, the sculptor had toiled on a memorial tomb for Oscar Wilde, the celebrated—and often vilified—author of works like The Picture of Dorian Gray. When he had finished and placed the headstone ...