Oscar Wilde

¡Hola compañeros! De nuevo os quiero hablar de un autor que me gusta mucho, se llama Oscar Wilde. Yo ya lo conocía de antes de la carrera porque tuve que estudiarlo en 2º de bachillerato en una optativa que se llama Literatura Universal. Ahora tengo otra optativa llamada Literatura Infantil y Juvenil que os recomiendo para aquellos alumnos de la Facultad de Formación del Profesorado a que os la cojáis “because it´s very interesting”.

Os voy a poner un poco su biografía muy resumidita y alguna que otra actividad que espero que la hagáis, bueno, está en inglés pero así practicáis que eso siempre viene bien.

Biography

-Birth name: Oscar Fingal O´Flahertie Wills Wilde

-Birth date: October 16, 1854.

-Birth place: Dublín , Ireland.

-Death date: November 30, 1900.

-Death place: Paris, France.

-High school: Portora Royal School.

-College: Trinity College, Magdalen College.

-Occupation: playwright, novelist, poet and editor.

-Parents: Sir William Wilde and Jane Francesca Elgee.

-Siblings: Henry, Emily, Mary, William, Isola.

-Wife: Constance Lloyd.

-Children: Cyril and Vyvyan.

MAIN WORKS

POETRY

-Poems, 1881.

- The Ballad of Reading Gaol, 1898.

THEATRE

-Vera or the Nihilists, 1880.

-Lady Windermere´s Fan , 1892.

-A woman of no importance, 1893.

-Salomé, 1894.

-An ideal husband, 1895.

-The importance of being Earnest, 1895.

PROSE

-The Canterville ghost, 1887.

-The happy prince and other stories, 1888.

-Lord Arthur Savile´s crime and other stories, 1887.

-The picture of Dorian Gray, 1890.

-Intentions, 1891.

-A house of Pomegrates , 1892.

- De profundis , 1905.

Aquí os pongo el breve relato de “THE HAPPY PRINCE”.

“ In the square below”, said the Happy Prince, “ there stands a Little match-girl. She has let her matches fall in the gutter, and they are all spoiled.

Her father will beat her if she does not bring home some money, and she is crying. She has no shoes or stockings, and her little head is bare.

Pluck out my other eye, and give it to her, and her father will not beat her”.

ACTIVITY

• To do a theatre with children.

• To see a film, for example “ The happy Prince”.

• Crosswords.