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 ...

It will surely take multiple viewings to appreciate Gregory Prest’s bold and brilliant new work De Profundis: Oscar Wilde in Jail. Like the Irish playwright and poet at the centre of the play, and ...

Spanish graphic novelist Miguelanxo Prado turns to animation with "De Profundis," a deceptively simple and lyrical labor of love about freedom, passion and loss. Themes are brought winsomely to life ...

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.

The letters of Oscar Wilde to his young lover Bosie are the source material of a new musical, De Profundis, opening at the Leicester Square Theatre this week. Writer Paul Dale Vickers was the winner ...

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 ...