Oscar Wilde Biographie
Wilde, Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills)
b. , Oct. 16, 1854, Dublin, Ire.
d. Nov. 30, 1900, Paris, Fr.
Irish wit, poet, and dramatist whose reputation grounds on his comic
masterpieces Lady Windermere's Fan (1892) and The Importance of Being
Earnest (1895). He was a spokesman for the late 19th-century Aesthetic
movement in England, which advocated art for art's sake; and he had to suffer from
celebrated civil and criminal suits which involving his homosexuality and caused his
ending in imprisonment (1895-97).
Wilde …
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