Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

(18541900)

Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde

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Works:

• A Florentine Tragedy; La Sainte Courtisane (1894)

• A House of Pomegranates (1891)

• A Woman of No Importance (1893)

• An Ideal Husband (1895)

• De profundis (1897)

• Essays and Lectures

• For Love of the King, a Burmese Masque (1894)

• Miscellanies

• Reviews

• Salomé (1891)

• Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde

• Shorter Prose Pieces

• The Canterville Ghost (1887)

• The Duchess of Padua (1883)

• The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888)

• The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

• The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)

• The Soul of Man under Socialism (1891)

• Vera; Or, The Nihilists (1881)

Wilde in Film:

The Trials of Oscar Wilde
1960
Director: Ken Hughes
Starring: Peter Finch, Yvonne Mitchell

 

 

Wilde
1997
Director: Brian Gilbert
Starring: Stephen FryJude Law

 

Born October 16 1854 Dublin (Ireland)
Died November 30 1900 Paris (France)
Cause of Death Infection
Buried Cimetière du Père Lachaise (Paris)
Father Sir William Wilde (d. 19-Apr-1876)
Mother Lady Jane Francesca Elgee Wilde (d. 1896)
Wife Constance Lloyd (m. 29-May-1884, div. 1893)
Son Cyril Holland (b. 1885)
Son Vyvyan B. Holland (b. 1886)
Boyfriend Lord Alfred ‘Bosie’ Douglas (1892-1895)
Occupation Novelist Playwright
Occupation Poet Writer