Презентация, доклад по английскому языку на темуBritish writers. Oscar Wilde

Author, poet, playwrightLanguageEnglish, FrenchNationalityIrishEducation
Portora Royal School
Alma mater Trinity College, Dublin Magdalen College, Oxford
Period Victorian era
Genre Drama, short story, criticism, dialogue, journalismLiterary movement
Aestheticism
Notable worksThe Importance of Being Earnest The Picture of Dorian Gray
SpouseConstance Lloyd (1884–98)
Children Cyril Holland, Vyvyan Holland
Relatives Sir William Wilde, Jane, Lady Wilde, Willie Wilde

Oscar Wilde’s biography

Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1854. His mother wrote poetry, and she taught him to love literature.
He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and Magdalen College, Oxford. Soon after leaving university his first volume of poetry, "Patience" was published.

Oscar Wilde is a famous English writer

two sons. When the boys were children Wilde wrote fairy stories for them that were later published as "The Happy Prince and Other Tales" (1888).

Oscar Wilde married Constance Lloyd

Queensberry. Wilde sued for libel but he lost his case and was then himself prosecuted and imprisoned.

many countries and in many languages.

the novel, "The Picture of Dorian Gray" (1890) and a book on the role of the artist, "The Soul of Man under Socialism" (1891). However, it was a playwright that Wilde had his greatest success. Comedies such as "Lady Windermere's Fan" (1892), "A Woman of No Importance" (1893), "An Ideal Husband" (1895) and "The Importance of Being Earnest" (1895) made him one of Britain's most famous writers. By 1895 Wilde had left his wife.

The novels and plays

France.
The following year he wrote "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" a poem inspired by his prison experience. Wilde's time in prison badly damaged his health and he died in 1900.

"The Ballad of Reading Gaol"

Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories (1891, stories)
House of Pomegranates (1891, fairy stories)
Intentions (1891, essays and dialogues on aesthetics)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (first published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine July 1890, in book form in 1891; novel)
The Soul of Man under Socialism (1891, political essay)
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892, play)
A Woman of No Importance (1893, play)
An Ideal Husband (performed 1895, published 1898; play)
The Importance of Being Earnest (performed 1895, published 1898; play)
De Profundis (written 1897, published variously 1905, 1908, 1949, 1962; epistle)
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898, poem)

Selected works