Importance of Being Earnest

Name: Importance of Being Earnest
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ISBN: 9780140436068

ISBN-10: 0140436065

ISBN-13: 9780140436068

Edition: 2000 (Revised)

Authors: Oscar Wilde, Richard Allen Cave, Richard Cave, Richard Allen Cave, Richard Allen Cave

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Oscar Wilde's complex identity, as family man and homosexual outsider, socialite, socialist and irish nationalist, underpins his unique insight into role-playing and the masks we all wear. A Woman of No importance, for all its charm and wit, exposes an aristocratic world as smug, snobbish and morally bankrupt. An ideal Husband portrays a glittering diplomatic gathering which is revealed as a masquerade to cover up the shady past of a prominent establishment figure. Lady Windermere's Fan is a brilliant critique of conventional morality. in The importance of Being Earnest every character is revealed as leading a hypocritical double life, while Salome and A Florentine Tragedy deploy historical…

Book details

List price: $12.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Introduction


The Importance of Being Earnest


From Wilde's Letters


Excerpts from Four-Act Version


Commentaries


George Bernard Shaw: "An Old New Play"


Max Beerbohm: "The Importance of Being Earnest"


St. John Hankin: "The Collected Plays of Oscar Wilde"


James Agate: "Oscar Wilde and the Theatre"


Bibliography