He found a niche in the growing trend of aestheticism and was mentored by Walter Pater and John Ruskin. Oscar Wilde was born in mid-1800’s Dublin to highly intellectual parents. 184-86.Immerse yourself in the world of Oscar Wilde with the collection: "The Plays of Oscar Wilde." Containing all of Wilde’s plays, this collection is a must-have for every bookshelf. This chronology is based in part on Karen Lawrence, Betsy Seifert, and Lois Ratner, The McGraw-Hill Guide to English Literature. His wife dies.ġ900 After being baptized into the Roman Catholic Church, he dies of cerebral meningitis at the Hotel D'Alsace. Also publishes two letters on prison reform. On his release from prison, goes in exile to the Continent, where he lives under an alias, Sebastian Melmoth.ġ898 Publishes his best known poem, The Ballad of Reading Gaol.
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He is bankrupted, humiliated.ġ897 In prison, writes De Profundis, a moving description of his spiritual progress to religious insight it will be published in part in 1905 and in full in 1962. After a hung jury on his first trial, Wilde is found guilty of homosexuality in a second. Incriminating evidence that comes to light in cross-examination leads to Wilde's arrest for homosexual offenses. Wilde sues for libel, but then abandons the case.
Infatuated with Douglas, Wilde flaunts the friendship in public, drawing public criticism from Lord Douglas's father. This is the height of his theatrical success both plays are popular and critical hits. James's Theatre it is his last and best dramatic work. Writes The Importance of Being Earnest.ġ895 Puts on An ldeal Husband at the Haymarket Theatre and The Importance of Being Earnest at the St. Wilde publishes Salom� in English translation. Publishes Salom� in French.ġ894 Renowned actress Sarah Bernhardt puts on Salom� in Paris. It is not produced because of an old law forbidding theatrical depiction of biblical characters.ġ893 Produces another success, A Woman of No Importance. Begins his friendship with Lord Alfred Douglas, a friendship that will prove disasterous.ġ892 Enjoys great popular success for his production of Lady Windermere's Fan at the St. Publishes another collection of stories, A House of Pomegranates. The novel arouses a storm of controversy over its morality. "The Decay of Lying" appears in The Nineteenth Century.ġ890 Serializes The Picture of Dorian Gray in Lippincott's Magazine.ġ891 Publishes several essays and three books exhibiting his far-ranging interests: Intentions, an important collection of dialogues containing Wilde's aesthetic philosophy Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, and Other Stones, a collection of short stories and The Picture of Dorian Gray, his only novel. " The theory of the essay is that many of the sonnets are addressed to a man. Makes and builds friendships with fellow artists.ġ887-1889 Edits Woman's World, a popular magazine.ġ888 Publishes The Happy Prince and Other Tales, a collection of original fairy tales.ġ889 Publishes essay on Shakespeare's sonnets in Blackwood's Magazine, "The Portrait of Mr.
Takes a house in Chelsea, an artistic section of London. Writes his second unsuccessful play, The Duchess of Padua.ġ884 Marries Constance Lloyd the daughter of a Dublin barrister and a woman with financial resources.
His manners and attire are satirized in Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera Patience.ġ882 A lecture tour of the United States is a great personal success.ġ883 Wilde's first play, Vera Or the Nihilists was first produced in New York.ġ883-1884 Gives a successful lecture tour of the United Kingdom. He distinguishes himself for scholarship also for dressing and acting eccentricly.ġ878 Wins Newdigate Prize for his poem Ravenna.ġ881 Publishes his first volume of verse, Poems. It is a time of conflict for him, conflict between the philosophies of Ruskin and Pater, between Roman Catholicism and Freemasonry, and between heterosexuality and homosexuality. Son of Sir William Wilde, founder of the first eye and ear hospital in Great Britain, and Jane Francesca Elgee Wilde, a writer.ġ864 Enters the Portora Royal School at Enniskillen.ġ874-1879 Attends Magdalen College, Oxford.
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