Oscar Wilde
Writing
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, plays and the circumstances of his imprisonment, followed by his early death. Wilde's parents were successful Dublin intellectuals, and their son showed his intelligence early by becoming fluent in French and German. At university Wilde read Greats; he proved himself to be an outstanding classicist, first at Dublin, then at Oxford. He became known for his involvement in the rising philosophy of aestheticism (led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin), though he also profoundly explored Roman Catholicism, to which he would later convert on his deathbed. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles. As a spokesman for aestheticism, he tried his hand at various literary activities: he published a book of poems, lectured in the United States of America and Canada on the new "English Renaissance in Art", and then returned to London where he worked prolifically as a journalist. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress, and glittering conversation, Wilde had become one of the most well-known personalities of his day. At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). The opportunity to construct aesthetic details precisely, and combine them with larger social themes, drew Wilde to write drama. He wrote Salome (1891) in French in Paris but it was refused a licence. Unperturbed, Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London. At the height of his fame and success, whilst his masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), was still on stage in London, Wilde sued the father of his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, for libel. After a series of trials, Wilde was convicted of gross indecency with other men and imprisoned for two years, held to hard labour. In prison he wrote De Profundis (1905), a long letter which discusses his spiritual journey through his trials, forming a dark counterpoint to his earlier philosophy of pleasure. Upon his release he left immediately for France, never to return to Ireland or Britain. There he wrote his last work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), a long poem commemorating the harsh rhythms of prison life. He died destitute in Paris at the age of forty-six. Description above from the Wikipedia article Oscar Wilde, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
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SALOME
2025
Writer
movieSalomé
2025
Original Film Writer
movieOscar
2024
Writer
movieThe Canterville Ghost
2023
Short Story
movieSalomé
2023
Writer
movieexpulsion
2023
Original Story
movieBlue Moon Once
2023
Writer
movieBeing Earnest
2021
Writer
movieSalomé
2021
Writer
movieThe importance of being Earnest
2021
Theatre Play
movieLove Me Not
2019
Original Story
movieThe Importance of Being Earnest
2018
Theatre Play
movieStrauss: Salome
2018
Writer
movieDamocles
2016
Short Story
movieErnest in Love
2016
Author
movieOscar Wilde's the Nightingale and the Rose
2015
Original Story
movieWilde Salomé
2013
Theatre Play
movieSalomé
2013
Theatre Play
movieDorian Gray
2009
Novel
movieStrauss: Salome
2008
Theatre Play
movieAshta Chamma
2008
Writer
movieBhoothnath
2008
Short Story
movieRoyal Opera House: Salomé
2008
Original Story
movieL'Importance d'être Constant
2008
Theatre Play
Syn gwiazd
2006
Short Story
movieErnest in Love
2005
Original Concept
movieA Good Woman
2004
Author
movieDorian
2003
Novel
movieThe Importance of Being Earnest
2002
Theatre Play
movieThe Canterville Ghost
2001
Scenario Writer
movieAn Ideal Husband
1999
Theatre Play
movieAn Ideal Husband
1999
Theatre Play
movieSex Files: Portrait of the Soul
1998
Original Story
movieThe Story of the Selfish Giant
1998
Short Story
movieSalome
1997
Theatre Play
movieThe Canterville Ghost
1996
Short Story
movieFleshy Doll
1995
Writer
Salomé
1992
Original Story
movieThe Importance of Being Earnest
1992
Theatre Play
movieBildnis der Leidenschaft
1992
Original Story
movieSpiegel der Lüste
1992
Original Story
movieThe Canterville Ghost
1990
Short Story
movieThe Canterville Ghost
1988
Short Story
movieThe Importance of Being Earnest
1988
Theatre Play
movieSalome's Last Dance
1988
Theatre Play
movieThe Canterville Ghost
1986
Short Story
movieSalomé
1986
Theatre Play
tvTheatre Night
1985
Theatre Play
movieThe Canterville Ghost
1985
Short Story
Ideálny manžel
1985
Theatre Play
KungFu Boys 3
1984
Theatre Play
Bezvýznamná žena
1984
Theatre Play
movieThe Selfish Giant
1982
Short Story
movieAn Ideal Husband
1980
Theatre Play
movieJak je důležité míti Filipa
1979
Theatre Play
movieSalomé
1978
Theatre Play
movieThe Importance of Being Earnest
1976
Theatre Play
movieThe Picture of Dorian Gray
1976
Original Story
movieTwo Women
1975
Writer
movieO Caçador de Fantasma
1975
Original Story
movieThe Happy Prince
1974
Short Story
movieSalome
1973
Theatre Play
movieSalomé
1972
Theatre Play
movieThe Selfish Giant
1971
Original Story
tvTheatre Macabre
1971
Short Story
movieSalome
1971
Writer
tvGreat Performances
1971
Writer
movieAn Evening with Orson Welles: The Happy Prince
1970
Original Story
movieThe Canterville Ghost
1970
Short Story
movieDorian Gray
1970
Novel
tvAlta comedia
1970
Story
movieSalomé
1969
Writer
movieThe Canterville Ghost
1968
Short Story
movieŚwiat grozy
1968
Short Story
movieZbrodnia lorda Artura Savile'a
1968
Short Story
tvITV Playhouse
1967
Writer
tvNET Playhouse
1966
Writer
tvBBC Play of the Month
1965
Theatre Play, Writer, Author
movieMr. Ernest
1961
Theatre Play
movieLord Arthur Savile's Crime
1960
Original Concept
movieThe Star-Child
1958
Short Story
The Happy Prince
1957
Original Concept
tvArmchair Theatre
1956
Writer
movieThe Importance of Being Earnest
1952
Theatre Play
movieAl compás de tu mentira
1950
Theatre Play
movieThe Fan
1949
Theatre Play
movieHistoria de una mala mujer
1948
Theatre Play
movieAn Ideal Husband
1947
Theatre Play
movieUna mujer sin importancia
1945
Theatre Play
movieThe Canterville Ghost
1944
Story, Original Story, Short Story
movieFlesh and Fantasy
1943
Short Story
movieThe Young Mistress' Fan
1939
Original Story
movieA Woman of No Importance
1937
Theatre Play
movieLady Windermeres Fächer
1935
Theatre Play
movieLady Windermere's Fan
1925
Theatre Play
movieSalomé
1923
Theatre Play
movieSalome
1923
Writer
movieA Woman of No Importance
1921
Theatre Play
movieLady Windermere's Fan
1916
Theatre Play
The Exiles
1911
Theatre Play
movieSalomé
1910
Theatre Play
movieSalome
Writer
Acting2
movieEdward Carson and the Fall of Oscar Wilde
2021
Self (archive footage)
movieThe Life and Loves of Oscar Wilde
1995
Self (archive footage)
