# Oscar Wilde

> The man who turned wit into an art form and then watched it fail him in court. Wilde's epigrammatic brilliance made him the toast of Victorian London until a libel suit he filed unraveled into his own prosecution, conviction, and imprisonment for "gross indecency."

*Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Country:** Ireland
- **Born:** 1854-10-16
- **Died:** 1900-11-30
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born in Dublin to Anglo-Irish intellectuals, Wilde proved himself an exceptional classicist at Trinity and Oxford, where he absorbed the aestheticism of tutors Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university he moved to London and tried everything - poems, lectures across America on interior decoration, periodical reviews - becoming known as much for flamboyant dress and conversational glitter as for the work itself. At the turn of the 1890s he hit his stride: The Picture of Dorian Gray in 1890, then four society comedies that made him the most successful playwright of late-Victorian London. At the peak, with An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest still running, he sued the Marquess of Queensberry for libel over the man's accusations about Wilde's relationship with the Marquess's son, Lord Alfred Douglas. The suit backfired; evidence surfaced that led Wilde to drop his case, then face his own arrest and two trials for gross indecency with other males. Convicted in the second, he served two years' hard labour, during which he wrote De Profundis, a spiritual reckoning that inverted his earlier gospel of pleasure. Released in 1897, he took the overnigh

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 89.7 / 100
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- **Historical depth:** 33.6 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 54.0 / 100
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- **Profile completeness:** 85.0 / 100

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## Topics
#Writers, #Writer / Author, #Poetry, #Theatre, #Fiction, #Literature, #Screenwriting, #19th Century

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