Famous Playwrights - Oscar Wilde

The Complete List of Oscar Wilde's Plays

These 9 plays comprise the complete list of Oscar Wilde's plays. The world has been deprived of many more masterpieces by Oscar's premature death at the age of 46 in Paris.

A Florentine Tragedy
A Woman of No Importance
An Ideal Husband
La Sainte Courtisane
Lady Windermere's Fan
The Duchess of Padua
Salomé
The Importance of Being Earnest
Vera (The Nihilists)

Oscar Wilde was one of the most famous celebrities of London Society in the 1890s.
Born in Dublin 1854, educated at Trinity College & Oxford, Oscar Wilde was a confidant of Royalty & High Society until his downfall following a libel trial for indency.

His other works include

Poems (1881)
Ravenna(1878)
The Canterville Ghost (1887)
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888)
The Portrait of Mr. W. H. (1889)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
A House of Pomegranates (1891)
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (1891)
Intentions (essays, 1891)
De Profundis (1905) Published after Oscar Wilde's death in 1900

Forged in the furnace of a terrible prison experience with hard labour,Oscar Wilde's 'Ballad of Reading Gaol' is some of the most powerful poetry ever written

Yet each man kills the thing he loves
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!

Oscar Wilde is buried in the famous Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris.