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La importancia de llamarse Ernesto / El abanico de Lady Windermere / Una mujer sin importancia / Salomé
Oscar Wilde, conversador delicioso, agudo, admirable, y maestro en los gustos y en el trato, alcanzó muy pronto una gran popularidad en los medios literarios de su tiempo. Sus obras se nos muestran bajo un diálogo aparentemente frívolo y con la ironía característica del autor. La importancia de llamarse Ernesto, El abanico de Lady Windermere, Una mujer sin importancia, son obras en las que Wilde muestra su dominio de la acción y donde resalta la alegría ligera y aguda de los diálogos. Salomé es un drama en un acto en el que el autor da a cada personaje su apropiada intensidad dramática.
256 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1982
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Oscar Wilde
5,509 books38.9k followersOscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and his criminal conviction for gross indecency for homosexual acts.
Wilde's parents were Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. In his youth, Wilde learned to speak fluent French and German. At university, he read Greats; he demonstrated himself to be an exceptional classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Magdalen College, Oxford. He became associated with the emerging philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles.
Wilde tried his hand at various literary activities: he wrote a play, published a book of poems, lectured in the United States and Canada on "The English Renaissance" in art and interior decoration, and then returned to London where he lectured on his American travels and wrote reviews for various periodicals. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress and glittering conversational skill, Wilde became one of the best-known personalities of his day. At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into what would be his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). Wilde returned to drama, writing Salome (1891) in French while in Paris, but it was refused a licence for England due to an absolute prohibition on the portrayal of Biblical subjects on the English stage. Undiscouraged, Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late-Victorian London.
At the height of his fame and success, while An Ideal Husband (1895) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) were still being performed in London, Wilde issued a civil writ against John Sholto Douglas, the 9th Marquess of Queensberry for criminal libel. The Marquess was the father of Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. The libel hearings unearthed evidence that caused Wilde to drop his charges and led to his own arrest and criminal prosecution for gross indecency with other males. The jury was unable to reach a verdict and so a retrial was ordered. In the second trial Wilde was convicted and sentenced to two years' hard labour, the maximum penalty, and was jailed from 1895 to 1897. During his last year in prison he wrote De Profundis (published posthumously in abridged form in 1905), a long letter that discusses his spiritual journey through his trials and is a dark counterpoint to his earlier philosophy of pleasure. On the day of his release, he caught the overnight steamer to France, never to return to Britain or Ireland. In France and Italy, he wrote his last work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), a long poem commemorating the harsh rhythms of prison life.
Wilde's parents were Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. In his youth, Wilde learned to speak fluent French and German. At university, he read Greats; he demonstrated himself to be an exceptional classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Magdalen College, Oxford. He became associated with the emerging philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles.
Wilde tried his hand at various literary activities: he wrote a play, published a book of poems, lectured in the United States and Canada on "The English Renaissance" in art and interior decoration, and then returned to London where he lectured on his American travels and wrote reviews for various periodicals. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress and glittering conversational skill, Wilde became one of the best-known personalities of his day. At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into what would be his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). Wilde returned to drama, writing Salome (1891) in French while in Paris, but it was refused a licence for England due to an absolute prohibition on the portrayal of Biblical subjects on the English stage. Undiscouraged, Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late-Victorian London.
At the height of his fame and success, while An Ideal Husband (1895) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) were still being performed in London, Wilde issued a civil writ against John Sholto Douglas, the 9th Marquess of Queensberry for criminal libel. The Marquess was the father of Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. The libel hearings unearthed evidence that caused Wilde to drop his charges and led to his own arrest and criminal prosecution for gross indecency with other males. The jury was unable to reach a verdict and so a retrial was ordered. In the second trial Wilde was convicted and sentenced to two years' hard labour, the maximum penalty, and was jailed from 1895 to 1897. During his last year in prison he wrote De Profundis (published posthumously in abridged form in 1905), a long letter that discusses his spiritual journey through his trials and is a dark counterpoint to his earlier philosophy of pleasure. On the day of his release, he caught the overnight steamer to France, never to return to Britain or Ireland. In France and Italy, he wrote his last work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), a long poem commemorating the harsh rhythms of prison life.
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April 10, 2024
Este libro tiene mucho de lo que me llama. Primero el nombre, segundo su autor y tercero que es una comedía. 😍
Les presento: La importancia de llamarse Ernesto
❤️❤️Reseña❤️❤️
💫La importancia de llamarse Ernesto es una obra de teatro cómica de Oscar Wilde que narra la historia de dos hombres que simulan llamarse Ernesto. Ambos lo hacen con el fin de casarse con dos mujeres que sueñan con ese nombre.
💫La obra es una sátira tanto de las hipocresías de la sociedad en la que vivía Wilde como del efecto dañino que estas pueden tener en las almas de quienes viven bajo su dominio.
💫La obra tiene como protagonistas a dos jóvenes, uno de los cuales es un joven íntegro llamado Jack que vive en el campo. Sin embargo, para escapar de la monotonía de su estilo de vida altamente conservador, ha creado un alter ego, Ernest, que tiene todo tipo de diversión réprobo en Londres. Jack dice que a menudo tiene que visitar a su pobre hermano Ernest, lo que le da la oportunidad de escapar de su aburrida vida y divertirse con su buen amigo, Algernon.
💫Sin embargo, Algernon llega a sospechar que Jack lleva una doble vida cuando encuentra un mensaje personal en una de las pitilleras de Jack. Jack hace un pecho limpio de su vida, incluido el hecho de que tiene una pupila joven y atractiva llamada Cecily Cardew en su propiedad en Gloucestershire. Esto despierta el interés de Algernon y, sin ser invitado, aparece en la propiedad haciéndose pasar por el hermano de Jack, el réprobo Ernest, para cortejar a Cecily.
💫En tanto, la prometida de Jack (y prima de Algernon) Gwendolen también ha llegado, y Jack le admite que, de hecho, no se llama Ernest, sino Jack. Algernon, a pesar de su buen juicio, también le confiesa a Cecily que su nombre tampoco es Ernest. Esto causa una gran cantidad de problemas en la vida amorosa de los muchachos.
💫Esto se debe a que las mujeres tienen un vínculo bastante extraño con el nombre de Ernest y no pueden considerar casarse con alguien que no tenga ese nombre.
Les presento: La importancia de llamarse Ernesto
❤️❤️Reseña❤️❤️
💫La importancia de llamarse Ernesto es una obra de teatro cómica de Oscar Wilde que narra la historia de dos hombres que simulan llamarse Ernesto. Ambos lo hacen con el fin de casarse con dos mujeres que sueñan con ese nombre.
💫La obra es una sátira tanto de las hipocresías de la sociedad en la que vivía Wilde como del efecto dañino que estas pueden tener en las almas de quienes viven bajo su dominio.
💫La obra tiene como protagonistas a dos jóvenes, uno de los cuales es un joven íntegro llamado Jack que vive en el campo. Sin embargo, para escapar de la monotonía de su estilo de vida altamente conservador, ha creado un alter ego, Ernest, que tiene todo tipo de diversión réprobo en Londres. Jack dice que a menudo tiene que visitar a su pobre hermano Ernest, lo que le da la oportunidad de escapar de su aburrida vida y divertirse con su buen amigo, Algernon.
💫Sin embargo, Algernon llega a sospechar que Jack lleva una doble vida cuando encuentra un mensaje personal en una de las pitilleras de Jack. Jack hace un pecho limpio de su vida, incluido el hecho de que tiene una pupila joven y atractiva llamada Cecily Cardew en su propiedad en Gloucestershire. Esto despierta el interés de Algernon y, sin ser invitado, aparece en la propiedad haciéndose pasar por el hermano de Jack, el réprobo Ernest, para cortejar a Cecily.
💫En tanto, la prometida de Jack (y prima de Algernon) Gwendolen también ha llegado, y Jack le admite que, de hecho, no se llama Ernest, sino Jack. Algernon, a pesar de su buen juicio, también le confiesa a Cecily que su nombre tampoco es Ernest. Esto causa una gran cantidad de problemas en la vida amorosa de los muchachos.
💫Esto se debe a que las mujeres tienen un vínculo bastante extraño con el nombre de Ernest y no pueden considerar casarse con alguien que no tenga ese nombre.
August 25, 2025
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