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Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde [a] (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential playwrights in London in the early 1890s. [3]
The history of Irish theatre begins in the Middle Ages and was for ... Boucicault is widely regarded as the wittiest Irish dramatist between Sheridan and Oscar Wilde ...
The festival was founded in 2004, in order to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Dublin-born Oscar Wilde in his native city, and to encourage and develop concepts of gay theatre. The image of Oscar Wilde was first used as the official festival logo in 2006 and remains so today.
The Importance of Being Earnest, a Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde, the last of his four drawing-room plays, following Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893) and An Ideal Husband (1895).
The Importance of Being Oscar is a one man show devised by the soi-disant Irish actor Micheál Mac Liammóir and based on the writings of Oscar Wilde. [ 1 ] It intersperses excerpts from Wilde's plays and other writings with biographical highlights of his life. [ 1 ]
Built over 100 years ago for Oscar Wilde’s theatre producer, ... The Irish-born playwright wrote a 16-page hand-written letter to Sir George in 1894 trying to sell him the play for £150, which ...
Playwrights whose work is in Irish are included. A brief outline of the history of Irish theatre is also available. ... Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) W. B. Yeats (1865 ...
An Ideal Husband is a four-act play by Oscar Wilde that revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honour. It was first produced at the Haymarket Theatre, London in 1895 and ran for 124 performances. It has been revived in many theatre productions and adapted for the cinema, radio and ...