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Oscar Wilde was an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet. After writing in different varieties throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the first 1890s. He's kept in mind for his epigrams, his book The Picture of Dorian Gray, his works, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early on fatality. Wilde's parents were successful Anglo-Irish Dublin intellectuals. Their kid became fluent in French and German early on in life. At school, Wilde read Greats; he proven himself to be an outstanding classicist, first at Dublin, then at Oxford. He became known for his involvement in the increasing school of thought of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After school, Wilde changed to London into classy cultural and public circles. As the spokesman for aestheticism, he attempted his side at various literary activities: He posted a reserve of poems, lectured in america and Canada on the new "English Renaissance in Art", and then delivered to London where he proved helpful prolifically as a journalist. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress and glittering dialog, Wilde became one of the best-known personalities of his day. At the move of the 1890s, he enhanced his ideas about the supremacy of skill in a series of dialogues and essays, and included designs of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into his only book, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). The opportunity to construct visual details exactly, and incorporate them with bigger social designs, drew Wilde to create drama. He had written Salome (1891) in France in Paris, but it was refused a certificate for England because of the overall prohibition of biblical themes on the British level. Unperturbed, Wilde produced four world comedies in the first 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London.

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