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Apr 30, 2024 · Oscar Wilde, Irish wit, poet, and dramatist who was a spokesman for the late 19th-century Aesthetic movement that advocated art for art’s sake. ... A Woman of No Importance (produced 1893), convinced the critic William Archer that Wilde’s plays “must be taken on the very highest plane of modern English drama.” In rapid succession, Wilde ...
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 ...
Salome (French: Salomé, pronounced) is a one-act tragedy by Oscar Wilde.The original version of the play was first published in French in 1893; an English translation was published a year later. The play depicts the attempted seduction of Jokanaan (John the Baptist) by Salome, stepdaughter of Herod Antipas; her dance of the seven veils; the execution of Jokanaan at Salome's instigation; and ...
The Importance of Being Earnest, a Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde.First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae to escape burdensome social obligations. Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the play's major themes are the triviality ...
No name is more inextricably bound to the aesthetic movement of the 1880s and 1890s in England than that of Oscar Wilde. This connection results as much from the lurid details of his life as from his considerable contributions to English literature. His lasting literary fame resides primarily in four or five plays, one of which—The Importance of Being Earnest, first produced in 1895—is a ...
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 meningitis) ...
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.
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