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Pages in category "Plays by Oscar Wilde" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. ... Lady Windermere's Fan; S. La Sainte Courtisane; Salome (play)
Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman is a four-act comedy by Oscar Wilde, first performed on Saturday, 20 February 1892, at the St James's Theatre in London. [1] The story concerns Lady Windermere, who suspects that her husband is having an affair with another woman; she confronts him with it.
This is a bibliography of works by Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), a late-Victorian Irish writer. Chiefly remembered today as a playwright, especially for The Importance of Being Earnest, and as the author of The Picture of Dorian Gray; Wilde's oeuvre includes criticism, poetry, children's fiction, and a large selection of reviews, lectures and journalism.
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde [a] (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential playwrights in London in the early 1890s. [3]
Vera; or, The Nihilists is a play by Oscar Wilde.It is a tragedy set in Russia and is loosely based on the life of Vera Zasulich. [1] It was Wilde's first play, and the first to be performed.
Wilde's first West End drawing room play, Lady Windermere's Fan, ran at the St James's Theatre for 197 performances in 1892. [2] He briefly moved away from the genre to write his biblical tragedy Salome, after which he accepted a request from the actor-manager Herbert Beerbohm Tree for a new play for Tree's company at the Haymarket Theatre. [3]
An Ideal Husband is a four-act play by Oscar Wilde that revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honour. It was first produced at the Haymarket Theatre , London in 1895 and ran for 124 performances.
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