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May 22, 2024 · The Victorian Web - Oscar's Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) (May 22, 2024) The Importance of Being Earnest, play in three acts by Oscar Wilde, performed in 1895 and published in 1899. A satire of Victorian social hypocrisy, the witty play is considered Wilde’s greatest dramatic achievement. Jack Worthing is a fashionable young ...
W. A Woman of No Importance. Categories: Irish plays by writer. Works by Oscar Wilde.
Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) was a flamboyant and vivacious Irish playwright of the 19th century. He studied at Trinity College Dublin and Oxford, and was a keen classicist. He wrote a number of great plays as well as essays, poetry and novels.
Sep 18, 2020 · 857 pages ; 22 cm The picture of Dorian Gray -- Lord Arthur Savile's crime -- The Canterville ghost -- The sphinx without a secret -- The model millionaire -- A house of pomegranates : The young king ; The birthday of the Infanta ; The fisherman and his soul ; The star-child -- The happy prince ; The nightingale and the rose ; The selfish giant ; The devoted friend ; The remarkable rocket ...
About The Plays of Oscar Wilde. This Vintage edition of The Plays of Oscar Wilde contains the plays that made Wilde one of the most important dramatists of his time, including The Importance of Being Earnest, one of the great works of modern literature. Oscar Wilde’s plays demonstrate once again why their author must be seen as both an ...
Welcome to Oscar Wilde online, a website dedicated to one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era and one of the greatest celebrities of his day. A brief introduction: Oscar Wilde - playwright, novelist, poet, critic. Born: October 16, 1854. Birthplace: Dublin, Ireland. Died: November 30, 1900 in Paris, France (cerebral ...
Oscar Wilde was born on October 16, 1854, in Dublin, Ireland. He was educated at Trinity College in Dublin and at Magdalen College, Oxford, and settled in London, where he married Constance Lloyd in 1884. In the literary world of Victorian London, Wilde fell in with an artistic crowd that included W. B. Yeats, the great Irish poet, and Lillie ...
