Oscar Wilde

For Love of the King, a Burmese Masque (Annotated) Oscar Wilde

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-For Love of the King, A Burmese Masque by Oscar Wilde. Oscar Wilde (October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900) Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, in the early 1890s he became one of London's most popular playwrights. 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", imprisonment, and premature death at age 46. Wilde's parents were successful Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. A young Wilde learned to speak French and German fluently. In college Wilde read Greats; He proved to be an exceptional classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin and then at Oxford. He was associated with the emerging philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After college Wilde moved to London in trendy cultural and social circles. As a spokesperson for aestheticism, he tried his luck in various literary activities: he published a book of poems, lectured in the United States and Canada on the new "English Renaissance in art" and interior decoration, and then returned to London where he worked prolifically as a journalist.