Oscar Wilde

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aphorist essayist human novelist playwright poet short story writer

Oscar Wilde was an Irish playwright, novelist, and poet renowned for his sharp wit, flamboyant style, and works such as "The Picture of Dorian Gray" and "The Importance of Being Earnest."

Aliases (2)

Wilde ×3
Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde ×1

Statements (82)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	aphorist → essayist → human → novelist → playwright → poet → short story writer →
awardReceived	Newdigate Prize →
burialPlace	Père Lachaise Cemetery →
causeOfDeath	meningitis →
child	Cyril Holland → Vyvyan Holland →
citizenship	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland →
convertedTo	Roman Catholicism →
convictedOf	gross indecency →
countryOfBirth	Ireland →
countryOfDeath	France →
dateOfBirth	1854-10-16 →
dateOfDeath	1900-11-30 →
educatedAt	Magdalen College, Oxford NERFINISHED → Trinity College Dublin →
employer	Woman’s World magazine →
ethnicity	Irish →
familyName	Wilde →
fullName	Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde →
genre	Gothic fiction → comedy of manners → philosophical fiction →
givenName	Oscar →
imprisonedAt	Reading Gaol →
influenced	George Bernard Shaw → Noël Coward → Stephen Fry →
influencedBy	John Ruskin → Walter Pater →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
movement	Aestheticism → Decadent movement →
notableQuote	I can resist everything except temptation. → Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life. → The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. →
notableWork	A Woman of No Importance → An Ideal Husband → De Profundis → Lady Windermere’s Fan → Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories → Salomé → The Ballad of Reading Gaol → The Canterville Ghost → The Happy Prince and Other Tales → The Importance of Being Earnest → The Picture of Dorian Gray →
occupation	journalist → lecturer → novelist → playwright → poet →
parent	Jane Wilde → William Wilde →
placeOfBirth	Dublin →
placeOfDeath	Paris →
positionHeld	editor of Woman’s World →
religion	Anglicanism → Roman Catholicism →
residence	London → Paris → Reading Gaol →
sentence	two years’ hard labour →
sexualOrientation	homosexual →
spouse	Constance Lloyd →
wrote	A Woman of No Importance → An Ideal Husband → De Profundis → Lady Windermere’s Fan → Salomé → The Ballad of Reading Gaol → The Canterville Ghost → The Happy Prince → The Importance of Being Earnest → The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People → The Picture of Dorian Gray → The Selfish Giant →

Referenced by (15)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Jane Wilde Hawking ("Wilde") → Oscar Wilde ("Wilde") →	familyName
Magdalen College, Oxford → Trinity College Dublin →	hasNotableAlumnus
St James's Theatre →	associatedWith
Père Lachaise Cemetery →	burialPlaceOf
Dublin →	famousWriterAssociated
Oscar Wilde ("Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde") →	fullName
Decadentism →	hasNotableFigure
Crome Yellow →	influencedBy
University of Oxford →	notableAlumni
Victorian era →	notableFigure
Poets’ Corner →	notableMemorial
Aestheticism →	notableProponent
Stephen Fry ("Wilde") →	notableWork