Written towards the end of Wilde’s incarceration, De Profundis is bitter, seductive, hurt and passionate. Ahead of a public reading, Colm Tóibín visits the cell in which Wilde put pen to paper Early ...

There is a thrilling majesty to Oscar Wilde’s tormented tour de force written as he prepared for release from Reading jail In life and death, Oscar Wilde possessed a unique self-mythologising genius.

Oscar Wilde did not choose the title De Profundis. After composing his famous letter to Lord Alfred Douglas ('Bosie') in Reading Gaol in 1897, he gave it to his friend and literary executor Robert ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

Marking the birthday of Oscar Wilde on 16 October, Arwa Haider looks at the revolutionary love letter he wrote in prison. Stepping into the disused Reading prison is an instantly unsettling experience ...

The Orchestra Now (T?N) will perform the final concert in its Carnegie Hall season on Thursday, May 2 at 7 pm. The performance will showcase the New York City premieres of Joachim Raff's Psalm 130: De ...

A new reading of the extended letter Oscar Wilde wrote in his cell in Reading Prison. Introduced on location by writer and director, Neil Bartlett, and read by Irish actor, Stephen Rea. Wilde was ...