In The Soul of Man under Socialism Oscar Wilde expounds on an anarchist world view. Wilde argues that under capitalism the majority of people spoil their lives by an unhealthy and exaggerated altruism-are forced, indeed, so to spoil them: instead of realizing their true talents, they waste their time solving the social problems caused by capitalism, without taking their common cause away. Thus, caring people seriously and very sentimentally set themselves to the task of remedying the evils that they see in poverty, but their remedies do not cure the disease: they merely prolong it because,...

El exito de Oscar Wilde se basaba en el ingenio punzante y epigramatico que derrochaba en sus obras, dedicadas casi siempre a fustigar las hipocresias de sus contemporaneos. En este cuento, Wilde narra la celebracion del duodecimo cumpleanos de la infanta. Para dicha ocasion actuo ante ella un enano deforme muy feo, el cual hizo que la infanta se riera y disfrutara muchisimo. Tanto disfruto que quiso que actuara solo para ella mas tarde. El enano, que no era consciente de su aspecto fisico, al saber la noticia se puso muy contento, pensando que le gustaba a la infanta y llegando a hacer...

Wilde la titulo The importance of being earnest, haciendo un gracioso juego con las palabras earnest, formal, serio, y Earnest, Ernesto, que suenan en ingles exactamente lo mismo, a pesar de su ortografia diferente. Y en realidad, como comprobara el lector en el curso de la comedia, para el protagonista (o mas bien para los dos personajes centrales), es de suma importancia ser formales de caracter o ser Ernestos de nombre. Comedia trivial para gente seria la subtitulo Wilde. Nosotros anadiriamos: para gente seria que sepa sonreir."

"Los reyes nunca deberian comprometer su palabra. Si no la cumplen, es terrible, y si la cumplen, es terrible tambien." Oscar Wilde anade al personaje de Salome todo un argumento que trastoca la historia evangelica de Jokanaan. En la Biblia, Salome pedia la muerte de Juan por instigacion de su madre Herodias, a la que Jokanaan reprochaba convivir con Herodes a pesar de estar casada con Filipo, hermano de Herodes. En la obra de Wilde, en cambio, Salome esta enamorada (obsesivamente incluso) de Jokanaan (Juan), quien rechaza su amor. La peticion de que sea decapitado se produce, pues, por...

Vera; or, The Nihilists is a play by Oscar Wilde. It is a melodramatic tragedy set in Russia and is loosely based on the life of Vera Zasulich. It was Wilde's first play, and the first to be performed... Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and...

Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman is a four-act comedy by Oscar Wilde, first produced 22 February 1892 at the St James's Theatre in London. The play was first published in 1893. Beautiful, aristocratic, an adored wife and young mother, Lady Windermere is 'a fascinating puritan' whose severe moral code leads her to the brink of social suicide. The only one who can save her is the mysterious Mrs Erlynne whose scandalous relationship with Lord Windermere has prompted her fatal impulse. And Mrs Erlynne has a secret - a secret Lady Windermere must never know if she is to retain her...

Although Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) created a wide range of poetry, essays, and fairy tales (and one novel) in his brief, tragic life, he is perhaps best known as a dramatist. His witty, clever drama, populated by brilliant talkers skilled in the art of riposte and paradox, are still staples of the theatrical repertoire. An Ideal Husband revolves around a blackmail scheme that forces a married couple to reexamine their moral standards - providing, along the way, a wry commentary on the rarity of politicians who can claim to be ethically pure. A supporting cast of young lovers, society matrons,...

The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae to escape burdensome social obligations. Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the play's major themes are the triviality with which it treats institutions as serious as marriage, and the resulting satire of Victorian ways. Contemporary reviews all praised the play's humour, though some were cautious about its explicit lack...

El exito de Wilde se basaba en el ingenio punzante y epigramatico que derrochaba en sus obras, dedicadas casi siempre a fustigar las hipocresias de sus contemporaneos. En "El fantasma de Canterville," Mister Hiram B. Otis se traslada con su familia desde los Estados Unidos a Inglaterra, y se mudan a un particular castillo, pero Lord Canterville, dueno anterior del mismo, le advierte que el fantasma de sir Simon de Canterville anda en el edificio desde hace no menos de trescientos anos despues de asesinar a su esposa lady Eleonore de Canterville. Es una obra extraordinaria, con impecable...

OSCAR WILDE (Dublin, 1854 - Paris, 1900) Escritor britanico. Hijo del cirujano William Wills-Wilde y de la escritora Joana Elgee, Oscar Wilde tuvo una infancia tranquila y sin sobresaltos. Estudio en la Portora Royal School de Euniskillen, en el Trinity College de Dublin y, posteriormente, en el Magdalen College de Oxford, centro en el que permanecio entre 1874 y 1878 y en el cual recibio el Premio Newdigate de poesia, que gozaba de gran prestigio en la epoca. El exito de Wilde se basaba en el ingenio punzante y epigramatico que derrochaba en sus obras, dedicadas casi siempre a fustigar las...