*Autor de f'abulas:    "El príncipe feliz" (1888)

                                             "Una casa de granadas" (1891)

    *Autor de cuentos:    "El crimen de lord Arthur Savile" (1891)

    *Autor de novelas:    "El retrato de Dorian Gray" (1891)

    *Autor de teatro:       "El abanico de  lady Windermere" (1893)

                                            "Una mujer sin importancia" (1894)

                                           "La importancia de llamarse Ernesto" (1895)

                                           "Salomé" (1891)

    *Autor de poesía:     "La balada de la cárcel de Reading" (1898)

                                           "De profundis" (1905)
 
 
 
 

                OSCAR  WILDE is the pioneer of the modern theatre in England.He lashes the hypocrisy and  mediocrity of the society of his time with smooth and splendid style.
 
 

                              "THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING  EARNEST" (1895)
 
 

    John Worthing, a serious and dignified person, lives in his country place.He is the master of Cecilia Cardew who is 18 years old.
    John has invented a brother named Ernst, so he must travel many times to London. He will be Ernst Worthing there and he will fall in love with Gwendolen Fairfax, cousin of John ' s friend. Both Gwendolen Fairfax and Ernst Worthing want to get married but Gwendolen ' s mother doesn ' t  want because Ernst  had appeared  into a suitcase in Victoria station.
    John decided to get rid of his brother.Then Algernon appeared with the name of  Ernst because he loved Cecilia and both fell in love.
    Later John will say that his brother Ernst has died in Paris.So Cecilia gets angry and the confusion is evident.Then it will be discovered  that John is  Lady Bracknell ' s nephew and he  will get marry with Gwendolen, Algernon with Cecilia and finally the Reverend Father Chusable with Miss Prism who left John in Victoria  station.
 
 
 

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