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OSCAR WILDE
OSCAR WILDE Born in Dublin, Oscar Wilde proved to be a brilliant scholar at Oxford, winning the Newdigate Prize for his poem “Ravenna.” His first collection, Poems, was published in 1881. After 1890, he had enormous success on stage with his comedies Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893), An Ideal Husband (1985) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). Wilde’s play Salome (1893), written in French, was refused a license in London but, 13 years later, was adapted by Richard Strauss into a successful opera. The Marquis of Queensberry, strongly disapproved of Wilde, and a quarrel ensued which eventually led to his imprisonment for homosexuality. Wilde was sentenced to two years hard labor and was released in 1897. He moved to France under the name Sebastian Melmoth. While there, he wrote his famous poem “The Ballad of Reading Gaol.” He died in exile in 1900.
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Importance of Being Earnest, The
American Airlines Theatre
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Salome: The Reading
Ethel Barrymore Theatre
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