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Wilde wrote nine plays in all between 1879 and 1894. His fame as a dramatist rests on four comedies – Lady Windermere’s Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, The Importance of Being Earnest –, and the tragedy Salomé. His plays continue to dazzle audiences even a century after his death.
After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and his criminal conviction for gross indecency for homosexual acts.
List of Oscar Wilde plays with descriptions, including any musicals by Oscar Wilde, playwright. This Oscar Wilde plays list includes promotional photos when available, as well as information about co-writers and Oscar Wilde characters.
The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
This is a bibliography of works by Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), a late-Victorian Irish writer. Chiefly remembered today as a playwright, especially for The Importance of Being Earnest, and as the author of The Picture of Dorian Gray; Wilde's oeuvre includes criticism, poetry, children's fiction, and a large selection of reviews, lectures and ...
Jul 19, 2024 · In rapid succession, Wilde’s final plays, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, were produced early in 1895. In the latter, his greatest achievement, the conventional elements of farce are transformed into satiric epigrams —seemingly trivial but mercilessly exposing Victorian hypocrisies.
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.
During his imprisonment and after, he produced two more classic works: his greatest poem, "The Ballad of Reading Gaol", and an open letter to his former lover, Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas, entitled De Profundis. Plays. Lady Windermere's Fan (1892) Salomé (1893) A Woman of No Importance (1893) An Ideal Husband (1895)
Oscar Wilde is a 1936 play written by Leslie and Sewell Stokes. It is based on the life of the Irish playwright Oscar Wilde in which Wilde's friend, the controversial author and journalist Frank Harris, appears as a character.
1893 - A Woman of No Importance. A play which premièred on 19 April 1893 at London’s Haymarket Theatre. Like Wilde’s other society plays, it satirizes English upper class society. 1893 - The Duchess of Padua. A five-act melodramatic tragedy set in Padua and written in blank verse.
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