Later, the same prime minister being asked to name a famous English playwright other than Shakespeare says " Sheridan, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw " and is told, " they were all Irish "

The Prince of Wales attended the second performance and told Wilde not to alter a single line.

* When seeking assistance from the U. S. Marine Corps, Cornel Wilde was told that due to the commitments of the Vietnam War all the Corps could provide the film was color stock footage taken during the Pacific Island campaigns.

He admitted to the date with Wilde and told The Sword, " I don't see anything wrong with going out with him.

This is perhaps linked to Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, which Wilde admired.

Harris appeared as a character in the play Oscar Wilde, written by Leslie & Sewell Stokes, at the Fulton Theatre, New York, 1938, starring Robert Morley in the title role.

Elizabeth R also starred many well-known television actors, including Malcolm McFee, Michael Williams, Margaretta Scott, John Woodvine, James Laurenson, Angela Thorne, Brian Wilde, Robin Ellis, Robert Hardy and Peter Egan.

* Robert De Wilde ( 1977, Kampen ), BMX World Champion who appeared in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

These are Maureen Borland's Wilde's Devoted Friend: A Life of Robert Ross 1869 – 1918 ( 1990 ), Jonathan Fryer's Robbie Ross ( 2000 ) and Neil McKenna's The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde ( 2003 ) which looked in detail at Ross ' sexuality.

Robert Baldwin is also the grandfather of Robert Baldwin Ross a Canadian literary figure and confidante of Oscar Wilde.

Medical experts included William Wilde, Robert Graves, Thomas Wrigley Grimshaw, William Stokes, Robert Collis and John Lumsden.

Most significantly this included: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë ; The Crucible by Arthur Miller ; The Cask of Amontillado, The Premature Burial, The Pit and the Pendulum & The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe ; Frankenstein by Mary Shelley ; The Turn of the Screw by Henry James ; Nicholas Nickelby by Charles Dickens ; The Monkey's Paw by Guy de Maupaussant ; The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde ; The Cthulhu Mythos by H. P. Lovecraft ; Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier ; The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson ; The Lottery by Shirley Jackson ; Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë.

* The Green Carnation ( 1894 ) by Robert Hichens is based on the relationship between Oscar Wilde and his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas.

Memorial to Sir William Wilde and his wife located in Mount Jerome Cemetery, DublinSir William Robert Wills Wilde MD, FRCSI, ( March 1815 – 19 April 1876 ) was an Irish eye and ear surgeon, as well as an author of significant works on medicine, archaeology and folklore, particularly concerning his native Ireland.

Lady Wilde complained to Mary's father, Robert Travers, which resulted in Mary bringing a libel case against her.

Notable winners have included Robert Stephen Hawker, John Ruskin, Matthew Arnold, Laurence Binyon, Oscar Wilde, John Buchan, John Addington Symonds, James Fenton and Alan Hollinghurst.

* An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde with Brenda Blethyn, Robert Glenister, Una Stubbs and Tom Chadbon ( 1992 )

Aphoristic collections also make up an important part of the work of some modern authors, such as Josemaría Escrivá ( compiled from other spiritual authors ), Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Arthur Schopenhauer, Søren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Franz Kafka, Karl Kraus, Montaigne, La Rouchefoucauld, Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, Andrzej Majewski, Mikhail Turovsky, Antonio Porchia, Celia Green, Robert A. Heinlein, Blaise Pascal, E. M. Cioran and Oscar Wilde.

The roots of English-language poetic modernism can be traced back to the works of a number of earlier writers, including Walt Whitman, whose long lines approached a type of free verse, the prose poetry of Oscar Wilde, Robert Browning's subversion of the poetic self, Emily Dickinson's compression and the writings of the early English Symbolists, especially Arthur Symons.

He was quickly drafted into the Wilde Flowers, a band that featured Robert Wyatt and Hugh Hopper, as well as future members of Caravan.

The firm soon experienced rapid growth by publishing works by Marie Corelli, Hilaire Belloc, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Oscar Wilde ( De Profundis, 1905 ) as well as Edgar Rice Burroughs ’ Tarzan of the Apes.

His witty conversation made him a favorite with the dons, particularly John Pentland Mahaffy ( formerly the tutor of Oscar Wilde ) and Robert Yelverton Tyrrell, and between 1901 and 1903 he won three successive Vice-Chancellor's prizes for verse.

Other contributors have included Anthony Trollope, Frederick Engels, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Spencer Walpole, Arthur Patchett Martin, and Jamaican-born writer E. S. Dallas.

However, how much of a believer in all the tenets of Catholicism Wilde ever was is arguable: in particular, against Robert Ross's insistence on the truth of Catholicism, Wilde's insistence " No, Robbie, it isn't true.

Robert Wilde wrote a poem The Tragedy of Mr. Christopher Love at Tower Hill ( 1651 ). Love condemned himself by refusal to agree not to continue to commit treason against the Republic, but, as true Presyterian, he wanted royalty restored.

On February 15, 1895 Oscar Wilde, Lord Alfred Douglas and Ross approached solicitor Charles Octavius Humphreys with the intention of suing the Marquess of Queensberry, Douglas ' father, for criminal libel.

Following Wilde's disgrace and imprisonment in 1895, Ross went abroad for safety's sake, but he returned to offer both financial and emotional support to Wilde during his last years.

Ross remained loyal to Wilde and was with him when he died on November 30, 1900.

Ross was also responsible for commissioning Jacob Epstein to produce the tomb for Wilde.

As a result of his faithfulness to Wilde even in death, Ross was vindictively pursued by Lord Alfred Douglas, who repeatedly attempted to have him arrested and tried for homosexual conduct.

* Ross was portrayed by Emrys Jones in the 1960 film The Trials of Oscar Wilde.

* Michael Sheen played Ross in the 1997 biopic Wilde, which starred Stephen Fry as Wilde and Jude Law as Douglas.

* October 5-Robert Baldwin Ross, friend and literary executor of Oscar Wilde

He then appeared in the biographical film Wilde, playing Robbie Ross to Stephen Fry's Oscar Wilde.

Oscar Wilde wrote to Robert Ross in an undated letter (? 18 February 1898 ): " To have altered my life would have been to have admitted that Uranian love is ignoble.

E. F. Benson, Alfred Douglas, Robert Ross, Oscar Wilde, Friedrich Krupp, Norman Douglas, and Compton and Faith Mackenzie ; and attracted many others during Adelsward's stay.

* Robbie Ross ( 1869 – 1918 ), art historian and friend to Oscar Wilde

He interviewed over a thousand guests including Bob Hope, Tim Robbins, Mel Gibson, Chevy Chase, Duran Duran, Cilla Black, Steve Allen, Barry Humphries, Lou Rawls, Tom Jones, Brit Ekland, Cleo Laine, Tiny Tim, Kylie Minogue, Brigette Neilson, Audrey Hepburn, Elle Macpherson, Shirley MacLaine, Alice Cooper, BB King, Rob Lowe, Dionne Warwick, Patrick Swayze, Jerry Hall, Kirk Douglas, Olivia Newton-John, Phil Collins, Sir Bob Geldof, Peter Allen, Sir Peter Ustinov, David Bellamy, Kim Wilde, Michael Aspel, Sally Field, Charles Dance, Whoopi Goldberg, John Thaw, Quincy Jones, Priscilla Presley, Robert Downey Jnr, Mickey Rooney, Martin Sheen, M C Hammer, Lyn Redgrave, ZZ Top, Leo McKern, Kathy Bates, Jane Seymour, Darryl Hannah, Jeremy Irons, Jeffrey Archer, Edward de Bono, Robert Ludlum, James Wood, Diana Ross, Jackie Collins, Harry Connick Jnr, Sir Harry Secombe, Gloria Estafan, Gerard Depardieu, George Benson, Fred Schepsi, Colleen McCullough, Burt Reynolds, Billy Joel, Bette Midler, Ben Elton, Phyllis Diller, Alexei Sayle, Elliott Gould, Oliver Reed, Oliver Stone, Macauley Culkin, Spinal Tap, Robin Williams and Cindy Crawford and various Prime Ministers and politicians.

Some of the best known guests to appear on Tonight Live With Steve Vizard included Bob Hope, Tim Robbins, Mel Gibson, Chevy Chase, Duran Duran, Cilla Black, Steve Allen, Barry Humphries, Lou Rawls, Tom Jones, Brit Ekland, Cleo Lane, Tiny Tim, Kylie Minogue, Brigette Neilson, Audrey Hepburn, Elle Macpherson, Shirely MacLaine, Alice Cooper, BB King, Rob Lowe, Dionne Warwick, Patrick Swayzee, Jerry Hall, Kirk Douglas, Olivia Newton-John, Phil Collins, Bob Geldof, Peter Allen, Sir Peter Ustinov, David Bellamy, Kim Wilde, Michael Aspel, Sally Field, Charles Dance, Whoopi Goldberg, John Thaw, Quincy Jones, Priscilla Presley, Robert Downey Jnr, Mickey Rooney, Martin Sheen, M C Hammer, Lyn Redgrave, ZZ Top, Leo McKern, Kathy Bates, Jane Seymour, Darryl Hannah, Jeremy Irons, Jeffrey Archer, Edward de Bono, Robert Ludlum, James Wood, Diana Ross, Jackie Collins, Harry Connick Jnr, Sir Harry Secombe, Gloria Estafan, Gerard Depardieu, George Benson, Fred Schepsi, Colleen McCullough, Burt Reynolds, Billy Joel, Bette Midler, Ben Elton, Phyllis Diller, Alexei Sayle, Elliott Gould, Oliver Reed, Oliver Stone, Macauley Culkin, Spinal Tap, Robin Williams and Cindy Crawford and various Prime Ministers and politicians.

However in the 2002 film version which starred Judi Dench, Colin Firth, Rupert Everett and Reese Witherspoon-the lines were dropped even though this film re-incorporated episodes and characters in an earlier version of the play that Wilde had been encouraged to drop before the play's first performance.

The combination of the Christian biblical theme, the erotic and the murderous, which so attracted Wilde to the tale, shocked opera audiences from its first appearance.

The decade also saw the opening of two new theme houses: the African American Theme House, opened in response to the University's closing of all of its theme houses ; and, in 1999, Oscar Wilde House.

At the beginning of the story, " J ", Coelho's master in RAM, shows him a copy of the poem by Wilde that says " we destroy what we love " and this theme is central to the story.