ENGLISH WRITERS

OSCAR WILDE

Oscar Wilde was born on 16 on October 1854 in Dublín, Irlanda. He is considered one of the most outstanding playwrights of London. Is remembered for his epigrams, his plays and the tragedy of his imprisonment.

As a spokesperson for aestheticism, he performed literary activities, published a book of poems, lectured in the United States and Canada on the English Renaissance, and then returned to London, where he worked as a journalist. In the year 1890 he incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity and beauty in his only novel, The Portrait of Dorian Gray.

 In Paris, Salome wrote in French, but his representation was forbidden because the work featured biblical characters, Produced four "funny comedies for serious people" in the early 1890s, becoming one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London.

In the decline of his fame and success, while his masterpiece The importance of being called Ernesto continued to be represented on stage, Wilde sued the father of his friend and lover Alfred Douglas for defamation, when accused of homosexuality.

After his release, he immediately left for France, where he wrote his latest play The Ballad of Reading Prison, a poem in commemoration of the hard rhythms of prison life.17 He died destitute in Paris at the age of 46.