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Oscar Wilde was an Irish author, poet, and playwright who became a leading figure of the Aesthetic movement and is widely regarded as the preeminent playwright of the Victorian stage. He produced a singular body of work—from the Gothic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray and the urbane comedies Lady Windermere’s Fan, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, to the French tragedy Salomé and charming collections of fairy tales—that combined razor-sharp wit with probing social critique. His essays and dialogues, with their memorable epigrams and defenses of art for art’s sake, helped reshape debates about beauty, morality and individualism. Even after personal calamity, his later prison writings and poems deepened his voice and ensured a lasting influence on literature, theatre and modern ideas about art and identity.
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