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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 Works Novel: The Picture of Dorian Grey (1891) Fairy Tales: The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888) Essay: The Portrait of Mr. W. H. (1889) Letter: De Profundis (1905)《自深处》 “An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty. ” Wilde’s Wit: Quotable Quotes A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise theyll kill you. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. III Plays The Importance of Being Ernest The Characters John (known as Jack) Worthing, alias Ernest Worthing Algernon Moncrieff, friend of John Lady Bracknell, Algernon’s aunt Gwendolen Fairfax, daughter of Lady Bracknell Cecily Cardew, ward of John Worthing The Plot Whenever Jack Worthing slips away to London from his Hertfordshire estate he says he is going to see his (fictitious) wayward brother Ernest. Once there he keeps his privacy by calling himself Ernest -