'Fathers should be neither seen nor heard,' runs one line in An Ideal Husband: 'Mothers are different'. The influence of Lady Wilde and other women helps solve the puzzle of her playwright sonOver a century on, Oscar Wilde continues to hypnotise us. The work, though distinctly uneven, is filled with intellectual provocation and delicious fantasy, and studded with scintillation, but it is the life " those action-packe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:08AM on January 15, 2016