Oscar Wilde

Title: Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde

Full Name: Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde Birth: October 16, 1854, Dublin Date of Death: November 30, 1900 (Aged 46) Description of Death: Oscar Wilde died penniless and alone in a Paris hotel. He was buried without much ceremony in the cemetery of Père Lachaise. Commemoration: For years after his death the name of Oscar Wilde held the disgrace attached to it by Victorian homosexuality. Wilde, the artist, now is recognized as a brilliant social commentator, whose best work …showed first 75 words of 714 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 714 total…after his imprisonment, but he concluded in the end that such endeavors were for "the other self--the man I once was." He was never the same after his release from prison in 1897. The once flamboyant public figure shyed away from his former audience, choosing to live the remainder of his life under the alias of Sebastian Melmoth. His other plays include Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), Salomé (1893), A Woman of No Importance (1893), and An Ideal Husband (1895).

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