did he have any brush with the law?
He was convicted for gross indecency for consensual homosexual acts.
Oscar Wilde
He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray", and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for gross indecency for consensual homosexual acts, imprisonment, and early death at age 46
theme of the importance of being earnest by oscar wilde Triviality with which it treats institutions as serious as marriage, and the resulting satire of Victorian ways. is it a play? Yes how does it reflect on society? The play repeatedly mocks Victorian traditions and social customs, marriage and the pursuit of love what kind of language is used in it? While his earlier comedies suffer from an unevenness resulting from the thematic clash between the trivial and the serious, "Earnest" achieves a pitch-perfect style that allows these to dissolve. when was it presented on stage for the first time? 14 February 1895 was the author associated with journalism? Yes, he enjoyed reviewing and journalism. what are his other famous works? "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
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Oscar Wilde [SEP] Introduction
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, the early 1890s saw him become one of the most popular playwrights in London. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray", and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for gross indecency for consensual homosexual acts, imprisonment, and early death at age 46. Wilde's parents were Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. A young Wilde learned to speak fluent French and German. At university, Wilde read Greats; he demonstrated himself to be an exceptional classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Oxford.