Richard Ellmann recounts the life of Irish playwright and author Oscar Wilde known for his works of SalomeĢ, The Importance of Being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Gray during the 1890s. Despite a marriage and two children, Wilde is infamous for his homosexuality and his affair with the son of the Marquis of Queensberry at the height of his career. A slander trial against the enraged Marquis set Wilde up for a follow up trial that would put him in jail for sodomy for a span of two years.
Oscar Wilde - (1854 - 1900)
(Full name Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde; has also written under the pseudonyms Sebastian Melmoth and C. 3. 3.) Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, cr...
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Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'flahertie Wills(1854–1900)
Born in Dublin to artistically minded parents, Wilde studied for three years at Trinity College in Dublin, and then at Magdalen College i...
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Together with George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde transformed British drama in the late nineteenth century by expressing a new, "modern" sensibility. By the mid-nineteenth century, the British theater...
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Few writers have managed to remain world famous without the support of the schools. Oscar Wilde is one of them. Not generally regarded by academics as major or important, Wilde's work has figured ve...
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Oscar Wilde brightened up, for the English-speaking world at least, the stiff and somber final years of the nineteenth century. Like the other magnificent Irishmen, Joyce and Beckett, who would cast ...
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Oscar Wilde as man and artist is a study of extremes and contradictions. He approached life empirically, as Walter Pater had taught him at Oxford, but the pupil determined to pursue sensation beyond ...
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Although Oscar Wilde is best remembered as a dramatist, novelist, essayist, poet, brilliant conversationalist, and flamboyant personality, he was also a writer of fairy tales. Wilde's notoriety--inclu...
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Oscar Wilde 's literary reputation rests primarily on his later plays and his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891). Although he published only fourteen short stories and six prose poems, a me...
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Oscar Wilde was a reform writer through the trenchant moral and social criticism in his works. Famous for his public speaking and wit, Wilde has often been accused of merely reproducing witty repartee...
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The British author Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900) was part of the "art for art's sake" movement in English literature at the end of the 19th century. He is best known for his brilli...
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Biography Essay] Together with George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde transformed British drama in the late nineteenth century by expressing a new, "modern" sensibility. By the mid nineteenth century, the B...
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"Famous for his public speaking and wit, [Oscar] Wilde has often been accused of merely reproducing witty repartee in his plays, and the temptation to treat his work lightly is in large part due to hi...
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While working on a carefully guarded film project in 1982, Steven Spielberg invited the versatile writer William Kotzwinkle to Hollywood. Spielberg had read and enjoyed Kotzwinkle's vivid evocation of...
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Oscar Wilde is a man of mystery and intrigue. He is an idealist, perhaps. Or could he be a cynic? On the surface, he may be, but through his book The Picture of Dorian Gray one can see that he is a mo...
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I'm at wit's end here; I've looked in countless periodicals, dictionaries, and reference books. I've been all over the internet, found some very interesting things that we needn't go into here, and do...
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Oscar Wilde - (1854 - 1900)
Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'flahertie Wills (1854-1900)
Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Willis) Wilde
Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
Oscar Wilde
