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My topic is
William Shakespeare
In Renaissance Context
Vs.
Oscar Wilde
In Decadence Context
is the name of a great intellectual and cultural
movement which was interested in classical culture
that occurred XIV – XV - XVI centuries. It’s a
transition period from the Middle Ages to modern
times.
A person is In the universal ‘s center but not
the ascetic life style with Almighty
God.
A person becomes the owner of the destiny, it
influences and course the history
The Revival epoch is a partly returning
to ancient art.
The person is measure of all things and this
understanding was in minds and hearts of that
age.
(1564-1616)
William was the first born son of Mary and John. William
attended school but left when he was thirteen to help with the
friend,
sake forbear,
banns were only read once,Good
instead
of for
theJesus'
conventional
three
To dig
themarried
dust enclosed
here.
times and William and Anne
were
in November
Blest be the man that spares these stones,
1582.His father's business
which
What
with this and what with
But cursed
be in
hereal
thattrouble.
moves my
bones.
the general misfortunes of the family it was about this time that William left
Stratford to seek his fortune in London. And a fortune he did make. He started
work in the theatre and achieved fame and fortune. He was an actor a great
playwright. His roots and his family were in Stratford and William often
returned to his home and family where he died in 26 April 1616.
It is written in Shakespeare
memorial…
The decadence used
to mean an
underlined
individualism,
and
It refinement
approves the
priority of
Neither Progress nor
Comprehension
by
art.
The knowledge
life did
imitates
art,
not bring
rather
the
reverse,
as its
carrying
about
high
happiness
or life SENCE
predecessors
culture. considered all. Art
is absolutely alien to morals, its
purpose is beauty: " there Are
no books moral and immoral.
There are books well written or
it is bad. The morals always
(1856-1900)
Although married and the father of two children, Wilde's personal life
Wilde made his reputation in the theatre world between the years 1892
was open to rumors. His years of triumph ended dramatically, when his
and 1895 with a series of highly popular plays. Lady Windermere's Fan
intimate association with Alfred Douglas led to his trial on charges of
(1892) dealt with a blackmailing divorce driven to self-sacrifice by
homosexuality (then illegal in Britain).
maternal love.
In A Woman of No Importance (1893) an illegitimate son is torn between his father and
mother. An Ideal Husband (1895) dealt with blackmail, political corruption and public and
He
wasissentenced
totoo
twoimportant
years hard labor thing
for the crime
ofto
sodomy.
Wilde was about it
Life
much
ever(1895)
talk
seriously
private
honor.
The Importance ofaBeing
Earnest
was about
two fashionable young
first in Wandsworth prison, London, and then in Reading Gaol. During this
gentlemen and their eventually successful courtship. Before his theatrical success Wilde
time he wrote De Profundis (1905), a dramatic monologue and autobiography,
produced several essays. His two major literary-theoretical works were the dialogues "The
which was addressed to Alfred Douglas.
Decay of Lying" (1889) and "The Critic as Artist" (1890).
They went out of dark but their steps haven’t
disappeared!