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 > His Work > The Times in Which He Lived > Trial and Imprisonment dimarts, 12 d'octubre de 2004
The 16th of October will be the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the birth of Oscar Wilde, one of the most renowned Irish writers and a great exponent of the movement known as aestheticism.
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was his full name; he was born in Dublin, the capital of Ireland, the son of an eminent surgeon. As a young man, he studied at Trinity College in his home city and then at Oxford University, where he stood out in the study of classics and wrote poetry. After graduating, Wilde settled in London, and soon became well known for his wit and extravagance. He published his first book, 'Poems', in 1881, and three years later, in 1884, he married Constance Lloyd, a well-educated, multi-lingual and independent woman with whom he had two children. From that moment on, and up the mid 1890's, he wrote most of the works that brought him most fame. In 1891, he began a love affair with Lord Alfred Douglas, for which he was then put on trial and imprisoned, and these experiences marked the last years of his life.
 
His Work
+ 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' is Wilde's only novel.
Oscar Wilde cultivated a variety of literary genres: plays, poetry, essays…, he also wrote short stories and the novel 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' (1891), branded as immoral at the time and in which he satirised Bourgeois society. As well as this work, Wilde particularly excelled as a playwright with plays full of wit and irony in which he often criticises the morals of the time. Worthy of mention are the comedies 'Lady Windermere's Fan' (1892), 'A Woman of No Importance' (1893), 'An Ideal Husband' (1895) and, in particular, 'The Importance of Being Earnest' (1895).
The Times in Which He Lived)
+ Wilde was a sharp critic of Victorian social hypocrisy.
Oscar Wilde lived and fully experienced the era known as the Victorian age, named after the British Queen Victoria I, who held the throne for over sixty years (1837-1901). It was a period of British history often described as glorious, but also pervaded with Puritanism and moral hypocrisy. But that didn't discourage Wilde, who criticised the mentality of the age through the art of writing, which he mastered to an extraordinary degree.
Trial and Imprisonment
+ Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas (1893).
In the summer of 1891 Oscar Wilde met Lord Alfred Douglas, better known as 'Bosie', with whom he fell in love. They embarked on an intimate relationship that greatly displeased 'Bosie's' father, the Marquis of Queensberry, who in 1895 accused Oscar Wilde of homosexuality. The court trial, which had considerable international resonance, led to Wilde being sentenced to two years of hard labor. While in prison, Wilde wrote 'De Profundis', a long letter reprimanding his lover, but without shying away from self-criticism.
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> Cronologia de la vida i obra d'Oscar Wilde.
> Recull de sentències de Wilde extretes dels seus escrits.
> Apunt biogràfic de l'escriptor irlandès.
> El lligam amorós entre Wilde i lord Alfred Douglas.
I també...
- Lletra admonitòria del marquès de Queensberry al seu fill, lord Alfred Douglas.
- Les iròniques paraules de Wilde, just després de rebre la sentència.
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