An Ideal Husband And Other Plays: The Importance of Being Earnest;Lady Windermere's Fan ; a Woman of No Importance; the Importance of Being e Arnest; Salome Oscar Wilde
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An Ideal Husband And Other Plays
An Ideal Husband And Other Plays
Zusammenfassung
This text contains Oscar Wilde's five wittiest and best known plays. Wilde, himself, described "Lady Windermere's Fan" as his first great stage success and as "one of those modern drawing-room plays with pink lampshades".
An Ideal Husband And Other Plays Zusammenfassung
Über Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854. He went to Trinity College, Dublin and then to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he began to propagandize the new Aesthetic (or 'Art for Art's Sake') Movement. Despite winning a first and the Newdigate Prize for Poetry, Wilde failed to obtain an Oxford scholarship, and was forced to earn a living by lecturing and writing for periodicals. After his marriage to Constance Lloyd in 1884, he tried to establish himself as a writer, but with little initial success. However, his three volumes of short fiction, The Happy Prince (1888), Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (1891) and A House of Pomegranates (1891), together with his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), gradually won him a reputation as a modern writer with an original talent, a reputation confirmed and enhanced by the phenomenal success of his Society Comedies - Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, all performed on the West End stage between 1892 and 1895. Success, however, was short-lived. In 1891 Wilde had met and fallen extravagantly in love with Lord Alfred Douglas. In 1895, when his success as a dramatist was at its height, Wilde brought an unsuccessful libel action against Douglas's father, the Marquess of Queensberry. Wilde lost the case and two trials later was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for acts of gross indecency. As a result of this experience he wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol. He was released from prison in 1897 and went into an immediate self-imposed exile on the Continent. He died in Paris in ignominy in 1900.
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GOR003661331
9780140279887
0140279881
An Ideal Husband And Other Plays: The Importance of Being Earnest;Lady Windermere's Fan ; a Woman of No Importance; the Importance of Being e Arnest; Salome Oscar Wilde
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Penguin Books Ltd
1999-04-01
352
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