Oscar Wilde
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, plays and the circumstances of his imprisonment, followed by his early death. Wilde's parents were successful Dublin intellectuals, and their son showed his intelligence early by becoming fluent in French and German. At university Wilde read Greats; he proved himself to be an outstanding classicist, first at Dublin, then at Oxford. He became known for his involvement in the rising philosophy of aestheticism (led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin), though he also profoundly explored Roman Catholicism, to which he would later convert on his deathbed. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles. As a spokesman for aestheticism, he tried his hand at various literary activities: he published a book of poems, lectured in the United States of America and Canada on the new "English Renaissance in Art", and then returned to London where he worked prolifically as a journalist. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress, and glittering conversation, Wilde had become one of the most well-known personalities of his day. At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). The opportunity to construct aesthetic details precisely, and combine them with larger social themes, drew Wilde to write drama. He wrote Salome (1891) in French in Paris but it was refused a licence. Unperturbed, Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London. At the height of his fame and success, whilst his masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), was still on stage in London, Wilde sued the father of his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, for libel. After a series of trials, Wilde was convicted of gross indecency with other men and imprisoned for two years, held to hard labour. In prison he wrote De Profundis (1905), a long letter which discusses his spiritual journey through his trials, forming a dark counterpoint to his earlier philosophy of pleasure. Upon his release he left immediately for France, never to return to Ireland or Britain. There he wrote his last work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), a long poem commemorating the harsh rhythms of prison life. He died destitute in Paris at the age of forty-six. Description above from the Wikipedia article Oscar Wilde, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
(Novel)
Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung
(Writer)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
(Novel)
An Ideal Husband
(Theatre Play)
The Seven Deadly Sins: Gluttony
(Writer)
The Fisherman and His Soul
(Story)
KungFu Boys 3
(Theatre Play)
The Importance of Being Earnest
(Theatre Play)
A Good Woman
(Author)
Dorian Gray
(Novel)
Salome's Last Dance
(Theatre Play)
An Ideal Husband
(Writer)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
(Original Story)
Oscar Wilde's the Nightingale and the Rose
(Original Story)
The Happy Prince
(Short Story)
Fleshy Doll
(Writer)
The Canterville Ghost
(Scenario Writer)
Take Off
(Idea)
Zločin lorda Savila
(Novel)
An Ideal Husband
(Theatre Play)
Ashta Chamma
(Writer)
Jak je důležité míti Filipa
(Theatre Play)
Dorian Gray
(Novel)
A Woman of No Importance
(Theatre Play)
Lady Windermere's Fan
(Theatre Play)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
(Novel)
Salome
(Theatre Play)
Salomé
(Theatre Play)
Salome
(Theatre Play)
Salomé
(Theatre Play)
Lady Windermere's Fan
(Theatre Play)
The Canterville Ghost
(Story)
The Fan
(Theatre Play)
The Nihilists
(Theatre Play)
An Ideal Husband
(Theatre Play)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
(Novel)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
(Novel)
Blue Moon Once
(Writer)
Dorian
(Novel)
The Importance of Being Earnest
(Theatre Play)
Salomé
(Theatre Play)
Salomé
(Theatre Play)
Flesh and Fantasy
(Short Story)
The Canterville Ghost
(Short Story)
The Canterville Ghost
(Novel)
An Ideal Husband
(Writer)
Salomé
(Original Story)
Sex Files: Portrait of the Soul
(Original Story)
Dítě hvězdy
(Book)
Salomé
(Original Story)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
(Novel)
The Canterville Ghost
(Short Story)
The Canterville Ghost
(Short Story)
Al compás de tu mentira
(Theatre Play)
An Ideal Husband
(Theatre Play)
Two women
(Writer)
Il Novelliere - Il salotto di Oscar Wilde
(Novel)
An Ideal Husband
(Writer)
Salomé
(Theatre Play)
O Caçador de Fantasma
(Original Story)
Tale of the Star-Child
(Novel)
The Canterville Ghost
(Story)
Lady Windermere's Fan
(Writer)
Salomé
(Writer)
The Canterville Ghost
(Original Story)
The Selfish Giant
(Original Story)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
(Novel)
Belonging to Laura
(Author)
The Ballad of Reading Gaol
(Writer)
The Canterville Ghost
(Short Story)
The Canterville Ghost
(Short Story)
The Canterville Ghost
(Short Story)
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
(Original Concept)
Being Earnest
(Writer)
The Canterville Ghost
(Novel)
The Canterville Ghost
(Short Story)
Zombie Psycho STHLM
(Poem)
Man of Rope
(Poem)
Duch z Canterville
(Short Story)
Zbrodnia lorda Artura Savile'a
(Short Story)
Świat grozy
(Short Story)
The Remarkable Rocket
(Novel)
The Canterville Ghost
(Writer)
Ernest in Love
(Original Concept)
An Ideal Husband
(Author)
The Canterville Ghost
(Novel)
Salome
(Writer)
Il est important d'être aimé
(Author)
The Canterville Ghost
(Novel)
Yôma kitan
(Story)
The Canterville Ghost
(Story)
In Memoriam, or The Ballad of Reading Gaol
(Writer)
Bezvýznamná žena
(Theatre Play)
Damocles
(Short Story)
The Happy Prince
(Writer)
Salomé
(Writer)
Historia de una mala mujer
(Theatre Play)
The Story of the Selfish Giant
(Short Story)
The Young Mistress' Fan
(Original Story)
The Picture of Dorian Grey
(Writer)
The Canterville Ghost
(Novel)
An Ideal Husband
(Story)
Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose
(Writer)
Zločin Arthura Savila
(Novel)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
(Novel)
Una mujer sin importancia
(Theatre Play)
Villa Destin
(Story)
The Canterville Ghost
(Novel)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
(Novel)
Salome
(Writer)
The Portrait of Dorian Gay
(Novel)
A Woman of No Importance
(Theatre Play)
An Ideal Husband
(Author)
The Exiles
(Theatre Play)
The Royal Life
(Novel)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
(Novel)
An Ideal Husband
(Writer)
A Woman of No Importance
(Writer)
Lady Windermere's Fan
(Writer)
The Sins of Dorian Gray
(Novel)
Strauss: Salome
(Theatre Play)
Salome
(Writer)
L'Importance d'être Constant
(Theatre Play)
The importance of being Earnest
(Theatre Play)
The Importance of Being Earnest
(Theatre Play)
The Importance of Being Earnest
(Theatre Play)
The Importance of Being Earnest
(Theatre Play)
The Importance of Being Earnest
(Theatre Play)
The Importance of Being Earnest
(Theatre Play)
The Happy Prince
(Original Concept)
Lady Windermere's Fan
(Author)
The Selfish Giant
(Short Story)
Mr. Ernest
(Theatre Play)
Salomé (Opéra de Paris)
(Writer)
Ideálny manžel
(Theatre Play)
Oscar
(Writer)
Salomé
(Writer)
Fata Ahlamy
(Story)
Theatre Night
(Theatre Play)
Theatre Macabre
(Short Story)
Alta comedia
(Story)
Portrét Doriana Graya
(Novel)