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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.
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1854-10-16
- event Death Date 1900-11-30
- school Known for: Writing
- star Popularity: 2.4
- info Birth Place Dublin, Ireland
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Simply Wilde
1997-10-17
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The Life and Loves of Oscar Wilde
1995-04-15
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Edward Carson and the Fall of Oscar Wilde
2021-02-01
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
2021-03-16
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Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung
1964-09-17
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
1913-01-01
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An Ideal Husband
1999-04-15
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The Seven Deadly Sins: Gluttony
2001-01-01
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The Fisherman and His Soul
1961-11-01
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KungFu Boys 3
1984-05-05
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The Importance of Being Earnest
2002-05-17
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A Good Woman
2004-09-15
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Dorian Gray
1970-04-24
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Salome's Last Dance
1988-05-06
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An Ideal Husband
1958-06-08
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Oscar Wilde's the Nightingale and the Rose
2015-02-09
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
1976-09-19
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The Happy Prince
1974-12-02
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Fleshy Doll
1995-01-01
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The Canterville Ghost
2001-10-31
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Take Off
1978-01-01
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Zločin lorda Savila
1968-01-17
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An Ideal Husband
1999-05-18
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Ashta Chamma
2008-09-05
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Jak je důležité míti Filipa
1979-05-01
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Dorian Gray
2009-09-09
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A Woman of No Importance
1921-07-01
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Lady Windermere's Fan
1925-12-26
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
1910-10-05
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Salome
1997-04-29
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Salomé
1986-07-31
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Salome
1973-11-12
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Salomé
1972-10-20
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Lady Windermere's Fan
1916-07-01
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The Canterville Ghost
1997-10-31
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The Fan
1949-04-01
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The Nihilists
1905-03-27
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An Ideal Husband
1980-12-20
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
1917-07-01
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
1945-03-03
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Blue Moon Once
2023-02-12
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Dorian
2003-04-23
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Salomé
2013-08-10
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The Importance of Being Earnest
1952-06-02
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Flesh and Fantasy
1943-10-29
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Salomé
1978-01-01
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The Canterville Ghost
1988-09-26
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The Canterville Ghost
2005-04-01
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An Ideal Husband
1969-05-11
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Salomé
2008-02-28
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Sex Files: Portrait of the Soul
1998-09-25
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Dítě hvězdy
2007-01-01
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Salomé
1992-06-02
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1920-03-18
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The Canterville Ghost
2023-09-22
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The Canterville Ghost
1986-12-31
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Al compás de tu mentira
1950-03-22
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An Ideal Husband
1947-11-14
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Two women
1975-10-27
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Il Novelliere - Il salotto di Oscar Wilde
1958-01-01
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An Ideal Husband
1967-08-29
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Salomé
1922-12-31
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O Caçador de Fantasma
1975-07-10
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Tale of the Star-Child
1983-06-28
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The Canterville Ghost
1944-07-20
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Lady Windermere's Fan
1985-09-15
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Salomé
2021-08-25
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The Selfish Giant
1971-11-26
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The Canterville Ghost
1944-07-20
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
1968-01-01
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Belonging to Laura
2009-12-21
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The Ballad of Reading Gaol
1988-11-08
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The Canterville Ghost
1990-01-01
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The Canterville Ghost
1970-12-19
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The Canterville Ghost
1996-01-27
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Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
1960-01-03
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Being Earnest
2021-09-17
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The Canterville Ghost
2016-04-06
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The Canterville Ghost
1985-01-01
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2004-01-01
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Man of Rope
1961-01-01
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Duch z Canterville
1968-05-31
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Zbrodnia lorda Artura Savile'a
1968-01-28
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Świat grozy
1968-05-21
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The Remarkable Rocket
1975-01-01
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The Canterville Ghost
1962-03-01
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Ernest in Love
2005-10-05
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An Ideal Husband
1972-10-01
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The Canterville Ghost
1965-05-25
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Salome
1923-01-01
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Il est important d'être aimé
1981-02-06
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1974-12-31
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Yôma kitan
1929-01-01
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The Canterville Ghost
1962-12-10
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1979-05-18
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Bezvýznamná žena
1984-01-01
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Damocles
2016-10-06
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The Happy Prince
1992-03-11
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Salomé
1969-05-09
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Historia de una mala mujer
1948-05-18
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The Story of the Selfish Giant
1998-01-01
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The Young Mistress' Fan
1939-01-01
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The Picture of Dorian Grey
1915-12-01
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The Canterville Ghost
1989-12-28
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An Ideal Husband
1935-09-05
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Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose
2003-12-26
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Zločin Arthura Savila
1984-01-01
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
1973-04-22
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Una mujer sin importancia
1945-03-01
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1921-02-18
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The Canterville Ghost
1964-09-06
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
1915-07-20
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Salome
2020-09-20
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The Portrait of Dorian Gay
1974-10-18
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A Woman of No Importance
1937-03-05
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An Ideal Husband
1947-02-07
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The Exiles
1911-12-09
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
1916-06-01
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The Royal Life
1918-01-21
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Lady Windermere's Fan
2018-03-20
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An Ideal Husband
2018-06-05
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A Woman of No Importance
2017-11-28
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The Sins of Dorian Gray
1983-05-27
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Strauss: Salome
2008-10-11
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Salome
1971-06-11
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L'Importance d'être Constant
2008-01-01
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The importance of being Earnest
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The Importance of Being Earnest
2018-10-28
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The Importance of Being Earnest
1992-05-14
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The Importance of Being Earnest
1988-05-29
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The Importance of Being Earnest
1976-12-31
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The Importance of Being Earnest
1964-11-15
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The Happy Prince
1957-01-01
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Lady Windermere's Fan
1961-07-29
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The Selfish Giant
1982-04-22
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Mr. Ernest
1961-09-01
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Salomé (Opéra de Paris)
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1985-01-01
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Oscar
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Salomé
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The Man of My Dreams
1957-12-22
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The Canterville Ghost
1966-11-02
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1992-01-01
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Call Me Salomè
2005-01-01
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1985-09-15
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Theatre Macabre
1971-10-01
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