Oscar Wilde

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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.

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1854年10月16日

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年份	電影	職務
2024	老鬼當家 Short Story	Short Story
2021	The Picture of Dorian Gray Novel	Novel
2019	別愛我 Original Story	Original Story
2018	不可兒戲 Writer Theatre Play	Writer Theatre Play
2018	An Ideal Husband Writer	Writer
2018	Lady Windermere's Fan Writer	Writer
2013	莎樂美 Writer Theatre Play	Writer Theatre Play
2009	不死魔咒 Story Novel	Story Novel
2005	Call Me Salomè Book	Book
2004	痴男怨女 Author	Author
2003	Dorian Novel	Novel
2002	The Importance of Being Earnest Theatre Play	Theatre Play
1999	老公不及格 Theatre Play	Theatre Play
1996	坎特維爾的幽靈 Short Story	Short Story
1988	The Importance of Being Earnest Writer Theatre Play	Writer Theatre Play
1988	Salome's Last Dance Theatre Play	Theatre Play
1986	Salomé Theatre Play	Theatre Play
1974	The Canterville Ghost Novel	Novel