After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. (m. 1884 died 1898)ChildrenCyril HollandVyvyan HollandParentsSir William Wilde (father)Jane, Lady Wilde (mother)RelativesWillie Wilde (brother)Merlin Holland (grandson)Signature LanguageEnglish, French, GreekAlma materTrinity College DublinMagdalen College, OxfordPeriodVictorian eraGenreEpigram, drama, short story, criticism, journalismLiterary movementAesthetic movementDecadent movementNotable works Oscar WildePhotograph by Napoleon Sarony, 1882BornOscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde()16 October 1854Dublin, IrelandDied30 November 1900() (aged 46)Paris, France For other uses, see Oscar Wilde (disambiguation).

This article is about the Irish poet and playwright. Without Stewart, I might have rated this much lower, but it definitely deserves high points for his performance alone.Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854–1900) The Americans may be paint-by-numbers stereotypes, but that doesn't matter. Recommended for children and adults alike, 'The Canterville Ghost' is charming, touching, and with just the right amount of suspense. Donald Sinden and Joan Sims play butler and housekeeper, shielding guilty secrets, and Leslie Philips appears briefly as the current representative of family de Canterville. This being a fairy tale there's romance for Ginny as well in the shape of a local Duke (Daniel Betts) who is sympathetic to ghosts and very charming, as local Dukes so often are in these stories. Patrick Stewart is the ghostly Simon de Canterville, doomed to walk the house at night for all eternity for his earthly crimes, and he is watchable, especially wrestling with the pride of 400 years dead and no one to bow and scrape around him. Oscar Wilde's story takes shape beautifully in this TV version, one of the numerous adaptations of his tale for children. Bumps and moans in the night, bloodstains, invisible hands on the shoulder - yes, there's a ghost about. Neve Campbell and her family (small brothers, sympathetic mum, physicist and cynic father) travel from America to England when he lands a lucrative research post, and almost immediately strange things begin to happen in the de Canterville ancestry home.

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