Oscar Wilde英国文学 教学课件.pptVIP

Oscar Wilde 1854-1900 “art for art’s sake” I. Life 1854 Dublin, Ireland. Father—a physicist, mother—poet, writer 1871-1974 Classical lit. at Trinity College, Dublin 1874 Magdalen College, Oxford 1876-1877 Greek and Italy. 1891 met Lord Alfred Douglas “Bosie” 1892-1895 four plays established his fame. Salome. Lady Windermere’s Fan. An Ideal Husband. The Importance of Being Ernest. 1895-1897 served his sentence at the Reading Gaol. the charge— gross indecency for homosexual acts. 1900 died of meningitis in Paris. II Work