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==History==
The ''Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News'' was founded in 1874.<ref>[http://www.rs4vp.org/dncj.html The Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism Project] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080518032321/http://www.rs4vp.org/dncj.html |date=2008-05-18 }} at rs4vp.org, accessed 5 December 2008</ref> The paper covered, as its title indicates, both sporting and theatrical events, including news and criticism. It also contained original pieces of fiction in serials and a story or two in each issue.<ref>Fotheringham, Richard, ''Sport in Australian Drama'', (Cambridge University Press, 1992, {{ISBN|0-521-40156-9}}, {{ISBN|978-0-521-40156-2}}) [https://books.google.com/books?id=l3HmaYHko48C&pg=PA48 page 48] online at books.google.com, accessed 5 December 2008</ref><ref>"''Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News'' (1874), see Sport and Country", ''The Writers' and Artists' Year Book 1949'', [https://archive.org/stream/writersandartist029424mbp/writersandartist029424mbp_djvu.txt online at archive.org], accessed 5 December 2008</ref> There were numerous similar publications in Britain at the time, including the ''[[
In 1883, the paper published a cartoon showing [[Oscar Wilde]] in [[convict dress]], which was considered at the time to be a very serious slur.<ref>Pine, Richard, ''The Thief of Reason: Oscar Wilde and Modern Ireland'' (Gill & Macmillan, 1995), p. 322 ("As early as 1883 the ''Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News'' had cartooned Wilde in convict dress — a most serious imputation..."): see [https://books.google.com/books?id=3aFbAAAAMAAJ&pgis=1 online version] at books.google.com (search function)</ref> Twelve years later, Wilde was convicted of "[[Sodomy law|gross indecency]]" and sentenced to two years [[penal labour]].<ref>Hyde, H. Montgomery, ''The Love That Dared Not Speak Its Name'' (Boston: Little, Brown, 1970), p. 170</ref>
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