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Oscar Oscar
Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born and grew up in Dublin. He was
the son of a surgeon, Sir William Wilde and the writer Jane Francesca
Elgee. From his school days and certainly at Oxford University, the
beginnings of his fanatical aestheticism could be found in his
extravagant dress sense and consummate style. Until his first expression
of homosexual feelings in 1886, Oscar Wilde's works were shallow or
derivative. However, his sexual revelation seemed to be a turning point:
his productivity increased, and the quality improved. The guilt he felt
about his homosexuality and his treatment of his wife, Constance (who he
had married in 1884), and their two children, could be seen to have
completed his ability to write on the themes of evil, crime and
suffering. He wrote The Importance of Being Earnest (his last
play) in 1886. By 1890, Wilde seemed to have come to the conclusion that
the 'evil' in himself could not be controlled, and so explored the theme
not within the safe confines of a fairytale, but in a dark, sinister
novel with a tragic ending: The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891). Wilde was imprisoned for homosexual acts
in 1895 and went bankrupt before he left the prison. Wilde died in 1900
but his name is still synonymous with the bohemian lifestyle, wit and
comic theatre. |
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AN
IDEAL HUSBAND (65 KB)
Drama
Sir Robert Chiltern, a
popular Government minister, seemingly has the perfect life: a
successful job and an ideal wife. But his impeccable reputation and
loving marriage are both threatened when Mrs. Chieveley shows up on the
scene with evidence of an inmoral behaviour in Sir Chiltern's past. As
Sir Chiltern struggles with his fear of losing his marriage and his
morals, things are further complicated when it is learned that his
closest friend, the idle and irreverent Lord Goring, had at one time a
romantic affair with Chieveley, immediately calling his innocent
intentions into question. |
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A
WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE (47 KB)
Drama
Oscar Wilde's audacious drama
of social scandal centres around a long-concealed revelation of Mrs
Arbuthnot, Lord Illingworth's wife, over their illegitimate son, Gerald.
Although Mrs. Arbuthnot eventually wins her son's allegiance and his
acceptance of her socially-taboo past behaviour, the end of the play
sees them on their way into an exile of sorts, while Lord Illingsworth
continues his life in the mainstream of smart London society. Wilde
also said that the character of Illingworth was his most
autobiographical of characters, and some of his bleakly skeptical and
paradoxical observations are characteristic of Wilde himself. Although
the strict Victorian morals of Wilde's time appear anachronistic to us
today, his characters' genuine feelings and motives, make this play as
relevant to a modern audience as it was when first performed in 1893. |
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