名家资料英文介绍：奥斯卡·王尔德 Oscar Wilde.docxVIP

— PAGE \* Arabic 1 — 名家资料英文介绍：奥斯卡·王尔德 Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Irish poet and dramatist whose reputation rests on his comic masterpieces Lady Windermeres Fan温夫人的扇子(1892) and The Importance of Being Earnest认真的重要性(1895). Among Wildes other best-known works are his only novel The Picture of Dorian Gray多利安?格雷的画像(1891) and his fairy tales especially The Happy Prince.  Wilde was born on October 16, 1854 in Dublin to unconventional parents - his mother Lady Jane Francesca Wilde (1820-96), was a poet and journalist. His father was Sir William Wilde, an Irish antiquarian古物研究者,收集古物者（antiques）, gifted writer, and specialist in diseases of the eye and ear. Wilde studied at Portora Royal School, Enniskillen, County Fermanagh (1864-71), Trinity College, Dublin (1871-74) and Magdalen College, Oxford (1874-78).  In 1878 Wilde received his B.A. and in the same year he moved to London. His lifestyle and humorous wit soon made him the spokesman for  Aestheticism(唯美主义), the late 19th century movement in England that advocated art for arts sake. He worked as art reviewer (1881), lectured in the United States and Canada (1882), and lived in Paris (1883). Between the years 1883 and 1884 he lectured in Britain. From the mid-1880s he was a regular contributor for Pall Mall Gazette and Dramatic View. In 1884 Wilde married Constance Lloyd (died 1898), and to support his family Wilde edited in 1887-89 Womans World. In 1888 he published The Happy Prince and Other Tales, fairy-stories written for his two sons. Wildes marriage ended in 1893. He had met a few years earlier Lord Alfred Douglas, an athlete and a poet, who became both the love of the authors life and his downfall.  Wilde made his reputation in the theatre world between the years 1892 and 1895 with a series of highly popular plays. Lady Windermeres Fan (1892) dealt with a blackmailing divorce driven to self-sacrifice by maternal love. In A Woman of No  Importance一个无足轻重的女人(1893) an illegitimate so