The life and downfall of Oscar Wilde are currently being researched by Icons of Europe in consultation with national archives and other institutions.  The outcome may eventually reflect Oscar Wilde's own thought:  "The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it" - The Critic As Artist (1890). - The following information is obtained from existing online sources.

Between 1892 and 1895, Oscar Wilde wrote a number of acclaimed stage plays:

• Lady Windermere's Fan deals with a blackmailing divorcée driven to self-sacrifice by maternal love.
• A Woman of No Importance is about an illegitimate son torn between his father and mother.
• An Ideal Husband dealt with blackmail, political corruption and public and private honour.
• The Importance of Being Earnest is about two fashionable young gentlemen and their eventually successful courtships.

Known for his barbed wit, Oscar Wilde was one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day.

As the result of a famous trial, Oscar Wilde suffered a dramatic downfall and was imprisoned for two years of hard labour after being convicted of the offence of "gross indecency".