Oscar Wilde
Personal Info
Known for
Writing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1854-10-16
Day of Death
1900-11-30 (46 years old)
Place of Birth
Dublin, Ireland
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.
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Known For
Acting
(2021)
Edward Carson and the Fall of Oscar Wilde
as Self (archive footage)
(1997)
Simply Wilde
as Self (archive footage)
(1995)
The Life and Loves of Oscar Wilde
as Self (archive footage)
Crew
Salome
Writer
(2027)
(2025)
Salomé
Original Film Writer
(2025)
(2024)
Oscar
Writer
(2023)
Blue Moon Once
Writer
(2023)
The Canterville Ghost
Short Story
(2023)
Salomé
Writer
(2022)
Salomé (Opéra de Paris)
Writer
(2021)
(2021)
Salomé
Writer
(2021)
Being Earnest
Writer
(2021)
The importance of being Earnest
Theatre Play
(2020)
Salome
Writer
(2019)
Love Me Not
Original Story
(2018)
Lady Windermere's Fan
Writer
(2018)
An Ideal Husband
Writer
(2018)
The Importance of Being Earnest
Theatre Play
(2017)
A Woman of No Importance
Writer
(2016)
(2016)
Damocles
Short Story
(2016)
Ernest in Love
Author
(2015)
Oscar Wilde's the Nightingale and the Rose
Original Story
(2013)
Salomé
Theatre Play
(2009)
Dorian Gray
Novel
(2009)
Belonging to Laura
Author
(2008)
Ashta Chamma
Writer
(2008)
Salomé
Original Story
(2008)
Strauss: Salome
Theatre Play
(2008)
L'Importance d'être Constant
Theatre Play
(2007)
Dítě hvězdy
Book
(2005)
(2005)
Ernest in Love
Original Concept
(2005)
Call Me Salomè
Book
(2004)
A Good Woman
Author
(2004)
(2003)
Dorian
Novel
(2003)
(2002)
The Importance of Being Earnest
Theatre Play
(2001)
(2001)
The Canterville Ghost
Scenario Writer
(1999)
An Ideal Husband
Theatre Play
(1999)
An Ideal Husband
Theatre Play
(1998)
Sex Files: Portrait of the Soul
Original Story
(1998)
The Story of the Selfish Giant
Short Story
(1997)
Salome
Theatre Play
(1997)
(1996)
The Canterville Ghost
Short Story
(1995)
Fleshy Doll
Writer
(1992)
Salomé
Original Story
(1992)
The Happy Prince
Writer
(1992)
The Importance of Being Earnest
Theatre Play
(1992)
Bildnis der Leidenschaft
Original Story
(1990)
The Canterville Ghost
Short Story
(1989)
(1988)
Salome's Last Dance
Theatre Play
(1988)
The Canterville Ghost
Short Story
(1988)
(1988)
The Importance of Being Earnest
Theatre Play
(1986)
Salomé
Theatre Play
(1986)
The Canterville Ghost
Short Story
(1985)
Lady Windermere's Fan
Writer
(1985)
The Canterville Ghost
Short Story
(1985)
Ideálny manžel
Theatre Play
(1984)
KungFu Boys 3
Theatre Play
(1984)
Bezvýznamná žena
Theatre Play
(1984)
(1983)
(1983)
(1982)
The Selfish Giant
Short Story
(1981)
(1980)
An Ideal Husband
Theatre Play
(1979)
Jak je důležité míti Filipa
Theatre Play
(1979)
(1978)
Take Off
Idea
(1978)
Salomé
Theatre Play
(1976)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Original Story
(1976)
The Importance of Being Earnest
Theatre Play
(1975)
Two women
Writer
(1975)
O Caçador de Fantasma
Original Story
(1975)
(1974)
The Happy Prince
Short Story
(1974)
(1974)
(1973)
Salome
Theatre Play
(1973)
(1972)
Salomé
Theatre Play
(1972)
An Ideal Husband
Author
(1971)
The Selfish Giant
Original Story
(1971)
Salome
Writer
(1970)
Dorian Gray
Novel
(1970)
The Canterville Ghost
Short Story
(1969)
An Ideal Husband
Writer
(1969)
Salomé
Writer
(1968)
Zločin lorda Savila
Novel
(1968)
(1968)
Duch z Canterville
Short Story
(1968)
Zbrodnia lorda Artura Savile'a
Short Story
(1968)
Świat grozy
Short Story
(1967)
An Ideal Husband
Writer
(1966)
The Canterville Ghost
Writer
(1965)
(1964)
Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung
Writer
(1964)
(1964)
The Importance of Being Earnest
Theatre Play
(1962)
The Canterville Ghost
Writer
(1962)
(1961)
(1961)
Man of Rope
Poem
(1961)
Lady Windermere's Fan
Author
(1961)
Mr. Ernest
Theatre Play
(1960)
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
Original Concept
(1958)
An Ideal Husband
Writer
(1958)
(1957)
The Happy Prince
Original Concept
(1957)
The Man of My Dreams
Story
(1952)
The Importance of Being Earnest
Theatre Play
(1950)
Al compás de tu mentira
Theatre Play
(1949)
The Fan
Theatre Play
(1948)
Historia de una mala mujer
Theatre Play
(1947)
An Ideal Husband
Theatre Play
(1947)
An Ideal Husband
Author
(1945)
(1945)
Una mujer sin importancia
Theatre Play
(1944)
The Canterville Ghost
Story, Original Story
(1943)
Flesh and Fantasy
Short Story
(1939)
The Young Mistress' Fan
Original Story
(1937)
A Woman of No Importance
Theatre Play
(1935)
An Ideal Husband
Story
(1935)
Lady Windermeres Fächer
Theatre Play
(1929)
Yôma kitan
Story
(1925)
Lady Windermere's Fan
Theatre Play
(1923)
Salomé
Theatre Play
(1923)
Salome
Writer
(1921)
A Woman of No Importance
Theatre Play
(1921)
Villa Destin
Story
(1920)
(1918)
The Royal Life
Novel
(1917)
(1916)
Lady Windermere's Fan
Theatre Play
(1916)
(1915)
(1915)
(1913)
(1911)
The Exiles
Theatre Play
(1910)
(1905)
The Nihilists
Theatre Play