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Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde [a] (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. 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 ...
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Apr 30, 2024 · Oscar Wilde (born October 16, 1854, Dublin, Ireland—died November 30, 1900, Paris, France) was an Irish wit, poet, and dramatist whose reputation rests on his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), and on his comic masterpieces Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895).
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Wilde was born in Ireland in 1854. He went to school at Trinity College in Dublin. Then he went the Magdalen College (part of Oxford University.) In London, he worked as a journalistfor four years. Oscar Wilde was a paedophile and a sex tourist. He was very well known in his time. This was because he dressed well and was very good at conversation. ...
Wilde was in a romantic relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas. Douglas was the son of the Marquess of Queensberry. Queensberry argued a lot with his son. He spoke to Wilde and Douglas several times about their relationship. In June of 1894, Queensberry visited Wilde with no warning. Queensberry threatened to beat up Wilde if he saw Wilde with his s...
Wilde vs Queensberry
The Marquess of Queensberry left Wilde a calling card on February 18, 1895. On the card he wrote: "For Oscar Wilde, posing as a sodomite". Sodomy (men having sex with other men) was a crime. This note accused Wilde of having committed a crime. Because of this, Wilde sued him for libel(lying about someone else in print). His friends thought this was a bad idea, but Douglas encouraged him. In the trial, Queensberry only had to prove that Wilde had posed as a sodomite. But he also presented evid...
The Crown vs Wilde
Wilde left court. The government wanted to arrest him for sodomy and gross indecency. His friends told him to try to flee to France, but his mother said he should stay in England. The government put him in prison before his trial. Douglas visited him daily, until Wilde told him to go to Paris to avoid punishment. Wilde's trial began on April 26, 1895. He pled not guilty. During the trial, he spoke about "the love that dare not speak its name". He described it as strong love between an older a...
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.A poet can survive everything but a misprint.Prose 1. The Canterville Ghost(1887) 2. The Happy Prince and Other Stories(1888) 3. Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories(1891) 4. Intentions(1891) 5. The Picture of Dorian Gray(1891) 6. A House of Pomegranates(1891) 7. The Soul of Man under Socialism (First published in the Pall Mall Gazette, 1891, first book publication 1904) 8. De Profund...
Aug 16, 2023 · Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born on October 16, 1854, in Dublin, Ireland. His father, William Wilde, was an acclaimed doctor who was knighted for his work as a medical advisor for the ...
Biographies. In 1946, Hesketh Pearson published The Life of Oscar Wilde (Methuen), containing materials derived from conversations with Bernard Shaw, George Alexander, Herbert Beerbohm Tree and many others who had known or worked with Wilde. This is a lively read, although inevitably somewhat dated in its approach.
A caricature of Wilde by Aubrey Beardsley, the caption reads "Oscar Wilde At Work". 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 ...
The following abbreviated chronological biography of Oscar Wilde has been reproduced from numerous sources, but primarily from Merlin Holland’s “Oscar Wilde: A Life in Letters“. 1854: Oscar Fingal O’Fflahertie Wills Wilde born in Dublin on 16 October. 1864-71: Studies at Portora Royal School, Enniskillen
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