"The Importance of Being Earnest" Reminds Me of the True Legacy of Oscar Wilde
Thanks to books (fictional homages by Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, and George Bernard Shaw), movies (like the 1997 Stephen Fry biopic "Wilde," in which Jude Law played his lover) and, of course, plays (most notably Moises Kaufman's Gross Indecency and David Hare's The Judas Kiss) I'm far more familiar with Oscar Wilde's persona than I am with his writing. And over the years, I've come to think of Wilde as t…