the importance of being earnest and other plays oscar wilde

His reluctance to appear in public was understandable, as he was being stalked by the Marquis of Queensberry, irate father of his current love interest, Lord Alfred Douglas.ĭespite this simmering conflict, The Importance of Being Earnest was another huge success, playing to packed houses for the next six weeks. The opening night audience was delighted with the new comedy, but Wilde refused to appear for a curtain call at the premiere.

The original cast list of The Importance of Being Earnest, from the 1899 first edition (ZSR Library copy) His new play, The Importance of Being Earnest, had its premiere at the fashionable St. A production of his An Ideal Husband opened in January to critical and popular acclaim. He was released in 1897 and fled to France where he died a broken man in 1900.In the winter of 1895 Oscar Wilde was the toast of the London stage. Wilde brought a libel suit against Queensbury but lost and was sentenced to two year's imprisonment. However Wilde's homosexual relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas was exposed by the young man's father, the Marquis of Queensbury. He followed this up with A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, all performed on the London stage between 18. Wilde's first success as a playwright was with Lady Windemere's Fan in 1892. Following his marriage to Constance Lloyd in 1884, he published several books of stories ostensibly for children and one novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891). He studied at Trinity College Dublin and then at Magdalen College Oxford where he started the cult of 'Aestheticism', which involves making an art of life. : Oscar Fingal O'Flaherty Wills Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854. Along with Salome, his darkly decadent dramatization of the Bible story, these immortal plays continue to pack theatres and have been adapted for every kind of media., They remain among the most-loved and most-quoted, of all drama in the English language. The four great comedies of Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, were all written at the height of the controversial Irish author's powers in his last, doomed decade, the 1890s.

The importance of being earnest and other plays oscar wilde