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The Wilde family home on Merrion Square. Oscar Wilde was born [5] at 21 Westland Row, Dublin (now home of the Oscar Wilde Centre, Trinity College), the second of three children born to an Anglo-Irish couple: Jane, née Elgee, and Sir William Wilde. Oscar was two years younger than his brother, William (Willie) Wilde.
This is a bibliography of works by Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), a late-Victorian Irish writer. Chiefly remembered today as a playwright, especially for The Importance of Being Earnest, and as the author of The Picture of Dorian Gray; Wilde's oeuvre includes criticism, poetry, children's fiction, and a large selection of reviews, lectures and journalism.
The decadent movement takes decadence in literature to an extreme, with characters who debase themselves for pleasure, [53] [54] and the use of metaphor, symbolism and language as tools to obfuscate the truth rather than expose it [55] Joris-Karl Huysmans, Gustav Flaubert, Charles Baudelaire, Oscar Wilde: Aestheticism
John Ruskin was Oscar Wilde's first choice as godfather to Vyvyan, but he refused because of his age. [2] Wilde then asked Mortimer Menpes, who accepted. [3] According to Vyvyan Holland's accounts in his autobiography, Son of Oscar Wilde (1954), Oscar was a devoted and loving father to his two sons and their childhood was a relatively happy one ...
1999 saw the publication of Oscar Wilde on Stage and Screen by Robert Tanitch. This book is a comprehensive record of Wilde's life and work as presented on stage and screen from 1880 until 1999. It includes cast lists and snippets of reviews. In 2000 Barbara Belford, a professor at Columbia University, published Oscar Wilde: A Certain Genius.
Famously known for writing "The Picture of Dorian Gray," Oscar Wilde has more to his story. Learn about his fascinating tale at Gramercy Books on Sept. 30.
Other events on October 16th in History: 1854: Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin, The former royal's trip to the guillotine was sparked by monarchy reform and French Revolution angst.
May 10 – The first stage performance in England of Oscar Wilde's tragedy Salome (the original version having been banned in 1892) takes place privately at the New Stage Club of the Bijou Theatre in Archer Street, London, with Millicent Murby in the title role, directed by Florence Farr. The author died in 1900. [3]