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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.
