Oscar Wilde

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. Their son became fluent in French and German ea... More

Date of birth:

  • Oct 16, 1854

Date of death:

  • Nov 30, 1900 (age 46 years)

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  • Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde,
  • Fingal O'Flahertie Wills,
  • Oscar. Wilde,
  • Oscar Wilde ,
  • Wilde Oscar,
  • Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde,
  • Sebastian Melmoth
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  • 1887
  • 1889
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  • Nov 1895
  • May 19, 1897
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  • Person

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  • Wilde's work helped bring a modern sensibility, that allowed for irony and wit, into British drama at the turn of the century. His outrageous behavior, which brought him public attention, linked his name to the British Aesthetic movement and eventually led to his downfall, when his homosexuality was exposed. Wilde is recognized today as one of the great forces of British literature from the turn of the century. His works such as the Picture of Dorian Grey, The Importance of Being Earnest, and the Ballad of Reading Gaol continue to be relevant today.

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  • literature

Disciplines:

  • author
  • poet
  • dramatist

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