oscar wilde?

Question

What are some of Oscar's greatest plays and how well did the do?

Answer 1

Wilde wrote only 5 plays:

Lady Windermere’s Fan, 1892
A Woman of no Importance, 1893
An Ideal Husband, 1895,
The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895, and
Salome.

The Importance of Being Earnest is by far the most
successful one, whereas Salome is only remembered
for R. Strauss’ revolutionary music

Apart from his plays and ’The Picture of Dorian Gray’
he wrote some fairy-tales: ’The Happy Prince’, followed
by ’A House of Pomegranates’, and short stories:
’Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and other stories’.
Finally there are his bitter accusations: ’De Profundis’ and
’The Ballad of Reading Goal’ as well as some critical
dialogues like ’The Soul of Man under Socialism’

You are welcome

Answer 2

Vera; or, The Nihilists (1880)
The Duchess of Padua (1883)
Salomé (French version) (1893, first performed in Paris 1896)
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
A Woman of No Importance (1893)
Salomé: A Tragedy in One Act: Translated from the French of Oscar Wilde by Lord Alfred Douglas with illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley (1894)
An Ideal Husband (1895) [4]
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) [5]
La Sainte Courtisane and A Florentine Tragedy

Wilde was an infamous literary figure, you have to realize that at the time he was a controversial social figure due to him being a homosexual and having pederasty relations, and of course he went to jail for "gross indecency" in which "The Picture of Dorian Gray" was used against him due to its suggestible themes. The themes in PODG were interpreted as Wilde's way of justifying his own lifestyle and hedonism adaptation, so he wasn't very successful until later on.

Answer 3

Oscar Wilde wrote one novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and many plays; The Importance of Being Ernest is the most well known (although my favorite of his plays is Lady Windermere's Fan). As far as I know they all did pretty well.

Answer 4

His greatest play was The Importance of Being Earnest. How he did is another issue. He spent time in jail for homosexual acts and didnt exactly have a very easy life. He was one of the most successful playwrights of his time and a true celebrity, but after jail, he was never able to get his life back together - and he died of menengitis most likely due to syphillis. As he said "The only thing I cannot resist is temptation" - that kind of summed up his life. Pax - C.

Answer 5

I think his only play is The Importance of Being Earnest.