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Oscar Wilde owed his most exceptional characteristics - his precocious intellectualism, his flamboyance, his hedonism, his recklessness, his delight, his sense of superiority, his liberal erotic principles - to his parents. Oscar's mom, Female Jane Wilde, increased to prominence as a politics journalist, advocating in 1848 a rebellion against colonialism. Proud, engaged and challenging, she became a salon hostess and opened up the Wildes' Dublin home at No. 1 Merrion Square to the public. Referred to as the most scintillating and stirring hostess of her day, she passed on her infectious delight in the fine art of living to Oscar, who imbibed it greedily. His dad was Sir William Wilde, one of the most eminent men of his generation. Acutely aware of injustices in the public order, Sir William laid the foundations for the Celtic renaissance in the fact that culture would set up a common ground between your privileged and the indegent, Protestant and Catholic. But Sir William was also a philanderer, so when he stood accused of sexually assaulting a girl patient, the scandal and trial directed great shock waves through Dublin population. After his father's loss of life, the Wildes migrated to London, where Oscar burst irrepressibly upon the scene. The one role that didn't suit him was that of the Victorian spouse, as his partner, Constance, was to discover. For beneath the swelling forehead was a self-destructive itch: a lifelong devourer of attention, Oscar was struggling to recognise when the party was over. The Show up of the House of Wilde for the first time places Oscar Wilde as an associate of one of the most dazzling Anglo-Irish groups of Victorian times and in the broader public, political and religious context. A remarkable and perceptive bill, this is a significant repositioning of our own first modern star, a guy whose own street to redemption from sophistication in a trial as public as his father's designated the finish of fin de siècle decadence.
