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It's eerie how freshly minted his humor is. It's also eerie how Wilde was able to write comedy at all. A successful playwright and flamboyant social commentator who lived in the staid English society of the Victorian era, Wilde was hounded for his unapologetic homosexuality, eventually doing prison time for sodomy and dying in 1900 at the age of 46. Always popular in theatrical circles and among certain intellectuals, Wilde is undergoing a considerable cinematic renaissance. The sole old-fashioned twist in the story is that Blanchett's character would rather her husband come clean about the whole sordid affair and lose his livelihood than sidestep the issue and remain a powerful and popular man.