Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

  • Birthday: 1854-10-16
  • Deathday: 1900-11-30
  • Place of birth: Dublin, Ireland
  • Also know as: Oskar Uayld

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.

Filmography

Dorian Gray: A Portrait of Oscar Wilde

2020

As Self (archive footage)

The Life and Loves of Oscar Wilde

1995

As Self (archive footage)

Edward Carson and the Fall of Oscar Wilde

2021

As Self (archive footage)

Simply Wilde

1997

As Self (archive footage)

Production

Zombie Psycho STHLM

0000

As Poem

An Ideal Husband

1999

As Theatre Play

The Importance of Being Earnest

2002

As Theatre Play

A Good Woman

2004

As Author

Dorian Gray

1970

As Novel

Salome's Last Dance

1988

As Theatre Play

Salomé

1922

As Theatre Play

An Ideal Husband

1999

As Theatre Play

Dorian Gray

2009

As Novel

Lady Windermere's Fan

1925

As Theatre Play

The Fan

1949

As Theatre Play

Salome

1997

As Theatre Play

Salome

1972

As Theatre Play

Salomé

1986

As Theatre Play

Salome

1973

As Theatre Play

Lady Windermere's Fan

1916

As Theatre Play

The Canterville Ghost

1997

As Story

An Ideal Husband

1980

As Theatre Play

Dorian

2003

As Novel

The Canterville Ghost

1996

As Short Story

The Canterville Ghost

2005

As Novel

Salomé

1992

As Original Story

Salomé

2008

As Original Story

The Canterville Ghost

1986

As Short Story

The Canterville Ghost

2023

As Short Story

An Ideal Husband

1947

As Theatre Play

An Ideal Husband

1967

As Writer

O Caçador de Fantasma

1975

As Original Story

The Canterville Ghost

1944

As Story

Lady Windermere's Fan

1985

As Writer

Belonging to Laura

2009

As Author

The Canterville Ghost

1985

As Short Story

The Canterville Ghost

1962

As Writer

Salome

1921

As Writer

An Ideal Husband

1972

As Author

The Canterville Ghost

1974

As Novel

Salomé

1969

As Writer

The Young Mistress' Fan

1939

As Original Story

An Ideal Husband

1935

As Story

Una mujer sin importancia

1945

As Theatre Play

Villa Destin

1921

As Story

The Canterville Ghost

1964

As Novel

The Remarkable Rocket

1975

As Story

Salome

2020

As Writer

A Woman of No Importance

1937

As Theatre Play

De bannelingen

1911

As Theatre Play

An Ideal Husband

1947

As Author

An Ideal Husband

2018

As Writer

Lady Windermere's Fan

2018

As Writer

The Royal Life

1918

As Novel

Strauss: Salome

2008

As Theatre Play

Salome

1971

As Writer

An Ideal Husband

1958

As Writer

The Canterville Ghost

2001

As Scenario Writer

A Woman of No Importance

1921

As Theatre Play

Sex Files: Portrait of the Soul

1998

As Original Story

KungFu Boys 3

1984

As Theatre Play

Fleshy Doll

1995

As Writer

Zločin lorda Savila

1968

As Novel

Ashta Chamma

2008

As Writer

Jak je důležité míti Filipa

1979

As Theatre Play

The Nihilists

1905

As Theatre Play

Al compás de tu mentira

1950

As Theatre Play

Salomé

2021

As Writer

The Canterville Ghost

1970

As Short Story

Being Earnest

2021

As Writer

The Canterville Ghost

2016

As Novel

Ernest in Love

2005

As Original Concept

Story of a Bad Woman

1948

As Theatre Play

The Canterville Ghost

1989

As Novel

The Picture of Dorian Gray

1976

As Original Story

The Happy Prince

1974

As Short Story

Take Off

1978

As Idea

Blue Moon Once

2023

As Writer

The Importance of Being Earnest

1952

As Theatre Play

Salomé

1978

As Theatre Play

Flesh and Fantasy

1943

As Short Story

Salomé

2013

As Theatre Play

The Canterville Ghost

1988

As Short Story

An Ideal Husband

1969

As Writer

Dítě hvězdy

2007

As Book

Two women

1975

As Writer

The Selfish Giant

1971

As Original Story

The Canterville Ghost

1944

As Original Story

The Canterville Ghost

1990

As Short Story

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