Oscar Wilde quiz

Early Life

• Born in Dublin

• Sir William Wilde, a physician and an amateur antiquarian, and lady Jane Wilde, a gifted poet

• Attended Trinity collage, then won a scholarship to oxford

• Studied under John Ruskin

Aestheticism

• Art exists for “Art’s Sake”

• to be enjoyed for its own beauty alone, not for practical purposes

• Life should be lived with aesthetic intensity

Early professional work

• Moved to London

• Worked as an Art reviewer

• Gave lectures in U.S. and Canada

• Lived in Pairs Art Scene

• Visited Milwaukee

Personal Life

• Although homosexual, married constance Mary Lloyd

• Lived double life

Literary Career

• Started publishing articles taking Victorian society to task

• published a collection of fairy tales in 1888

• The Picture of Dorian Gray in 1891

Famous plays

• Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892)

• A woman of no importance (1893)

• The Importance of Being Earnest(1895)

• An ideal husband (1895)

Sad End

• Got into a public dispute with his romantic’s partner’s father

• brought up on charges of sodomy, then illegal

• Sentenced to 2 years of hard labor

• moved to pairs name changed to Sebastian Melmoth

• died in poverty and ignominy