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Oscar
Wilde
Name:
Oscar Wilde (Irish)
Genre: poetry, drama, journalism
Literary movement: Aestheticism
Time period: 1854 – 1900 (born in Ireland, died in Paris) – Victorian Era
Significant features:
- representative of the Aesthetic movement in England proclaiming ´Art for Art´s Sake´
- dressed in a flamboyant (nápadný, výrazný) clothes in order to differ from the grey suits worn by
everybody during the Victorian period
- liked to show off his wit (důvtip)
- rebellion against society and conventional rules
- the cleverness of the way the ideas were presented was more important than their meaning
Significant work:
- poems: The Ballad of Reading Gaol – against the inhumanity of the justice system
- plays: Lady Windermere´s Fan (masterpiece)
The Importance of Being Earnest (masterpiece) – a classic comedy of English social manners
An Ideal Husband
Salome (written in French, translated into English)
- prose: The Happy Prince and Other Tales
The Picture of Dorian Gray
A House of Pomegranates
Personal life:
- the second son of a surgeon, also wrote books, notorious women seducer, his mother was a wellknown writer
- excellent student (Dublin, Oxford)
- married, had 2 sons , lived happily until he met Lord Alfred Douglas (a handsome young gentleman),
they became very close, Alfred´s father accused Wilde of being a sodomite
- after being released from prison, he was a broken man
- died of alcohol-poisoning, drugs and meningitis
Other important/interesting facts:
- his aim was - „we should treat all the trivial things of life seriously and all the serious things of life
with sincere and studied triviality.“
- towards the end of his life, he spent 2 years in prison for homosexual practices
Source: BRENDLOVÁ, Světla a NOVY, Jan Lindsey. Literatura anglicky mluvících zemí = A survey
of literature in English-speaking countries. 1. vyd. Plzeň: Fraus, 1998. 144 s. ISBN 80-85784-31-9.
jméno autora
Kateřina Csibová
název projektu
Informatika a digitální technika
číslo projektu
CZ.1.07/1.5.00/34.0158
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předmět/ třída
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DUM
III/2 Inovace výuky pomocí ICT
datum
1. 10. 2012
název DUM
Oscar Wilde
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