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Oscar Wilde

Portrait of Oscar Wilde

Wit · Aesthete · Poet · Poet & Playwright · 1854–1900

The Irish playwright and wit whose epigrams defined an era — and whose downfall defined Victorian hypocrisy.

Why Wilde is on Incandio

Incandio is a free revision platform for the Pearson Edexcel International GCSE. Its historical figures are the people a student learns from, questions and — where a specification topic is theirs — defends an idea against. Oscar Wilde can be questioned here in a dramatised, historically grounded portrayal, and the five-chapter life below is written to be read alongside the course.

Explore the life of Wilde — five chapters

  1. Speranza's Son — Dublin, Oxford, and a deliberate self-invention
  2. Dorian Gray — A novel that was later read out in court
  3. Two Plays Running at Once — February 1895, the top of the world
  4. Three Trials — A misspelled card, and two years' hard labour
  5. C.3.3. — A letter from prison, a ballad, and three years left

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