Oscar Wilde: ‘I can Resist Everything Except Temptation’

'Somehow or other I’ll be famous, and if not famous, I’ll be notorious', declared the young Oscar Wilde: he proved to be both. Wilde’s genius as a raconteur and coiner of epigrams made him the most quoted man in London. He translated his genius into stories, plays, poems and a novel and gained a place amongst the great Victorian writers.

Wilde once stated that he had put only his talent into his works, but had put his genius into his life. His life was one of excess – fabulous food and wine, dining in the best establishments, trips abroad, and having male lovers which was, at that time, illegal.

Susannah Fullerton discusses Wilde’s extraordinary life and the creation of his great works of literature. Dramatic readings will bring those works to life and illustrations provide the sort of sumptuous visual background that Wilde himself would have appreciated.