Oscar Wilde

Personal Info

Known For Writer

Gender Male

Birthday 1854-10-16

Deathday 1900-11-30 (46 years old)

Place of Birth Dublin, Ireland

Also Known As Oskar Uayld, Sebastian Melmoth, 오스카 와일드, О. Уайльд

Oscar Wilde

Biography

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.

Known For

Writer

2024
Oscar

as Writer

2023
Blue Moon Once

as Writer

2023
The Canterville Ghost

as Short Story

2021
Salomé

as Writer

2021
Being Earnest

as Writer

2020
Salome

as Writer

2018
2018
2016
Damocles

as Short Story

2013
Salomé

as Theatre Play

2009
Dorian Gray

as Novel

2009
2008
Ashta Chamma

as Writer

2008
Salomé

as Original Story

2008
Strauss: Salome

as Theatre Play

2008
2007
2005
Ernest in Love

as Original Concept

2004
A Good Woman

as Author

2003
Dorian

as Novel

2001
The Canterville Ghost

as Scenario Writer

1999
An Ideal Husband

as Theatre Play

1999
An Ideal Husband

as Theatre Play

1998
1997
Salome

as Theatre Play

1996
The Canterville Ghost

as Short Story

1995
Fleshy Doll

as Writer

1992
Salomé

as Original Story

1992
1990
The Canterville Ghost

as Short Story

1988
Salome's Last Dance

as Theatre Play

1988
The Canterville Ghost

as Short Story

1986
Salomé

as Theatre Play

1986
The Canterville Ghost

as Short Story

1985
1985
The Canterville Ghost

as Short Story

1985
Ideálny manžel

as Theatre Play

1985
Theatre Night

as Theatre Play

1984
KungFu Boys 3

as Theatre Play

1984
Bezvýznamná žena

as Theatre Play

1982
The Selfish Giant

as Short Story

1980
An Ideal Husband

as Theatre Play

1978
Take Off

as Idea

1978
Salomé

as Theatre Play

1976
The Picture of Dorian Gray

as Original Story

1975
Two women

as Writer

1975
O Caçador de Fantasma

as Original Story

1974
The Happy Prince

as Short Story

1973
Salome

as Theatre Play

1972
Salome

as Theatre Play

1972
1971
The Selfish Giant

as Original Story

1971
Salome

as Writer

1971
Theatre Macabre

as Short Story

1970
Dorian Gray

as Novel

1970
The Canterville Ghost

as Short Story

1970
Alta comedia

as Story

1969
1969
Salomé

as Writer

1968
Duch z Canterville

as Short Story

1968
Świat grozy

as Short Story

1967
1962
1961
1961
Mr. Ernest

as Theatre Play

1960
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime

as Original Concept

1958
1957
The Happy Prince

as Original Concept

1950
Al compás de tu mentira

as Theatre Play

1949
The Fan

as Theatre Play

1948
Story of a Bad Woman

as Theatre Play

1947
An Ideal Husband

as Theatre Play

1947
1945
1944
The Canterville Ghost

as Original Story

1943
Flesh and Fantasy

as Short Story

1939
The Young Mistress' Fan

as Original Story

1937
A Woman of No Importance

as Theatre Play

1935
1929
Yôma kitan

as Story

1925
Lady Windermere's Fan

as Theatre Play

1923
Salome

as Writer

1922
Salomé

as Theatre Play

1921
A Woman of No Importance

as Theatre Play

1921
Villa Destin

as Story

1918
1916
Lady Windermere's Fan

as Theatre Play

1911
The Exiles

as Theatre Play

1905
The Nihilists

as Theatre Play

Actor

2021
1997
Simply Wilde

as Self (archive footage)

1995
The Life and Loves of Oscar Wilde

as Self (archive footage)

Crew

1961
Man of Rope

as Poem