The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays by Oscar Wilde (English) Paperba

Description: The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays by Oscar Wilde Includes plays such as "Lady Windermeres Fan", "Salome", "A Woman of No Importance", "An Ideal Husband", "A Florentine Tragedy" and "The Importance of Being Earnest". FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Combining epigrammatic brilliance and shrewd social observation, the works collected in Oscar Wildes The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays are edited with an introduction, commentaries and notes by Richard Allen Cave in Penguin Classics.To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessnessThe Importance of Being Earnest is a glorious comedy of mistaken identity, which ridicules codes of propriety and etiquette. Manners and morality are also victims of Wildes sharp wit in Lady Windermeres Fan, A Woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband, in which snobbery and hypocrisy are laid bare. In Salome and A Florentine Tragedy, Wilde makes powerful use of historical settings to explore the complex relationship between sex and power. The range of these plays displays Wildes delight in artifice, masks and disguises, and reveals the pretentions of the social world in which he himself played such a dazzling and precarious part.Richard Allen Caves introduction and notes discuss the themes of the plays and Wildes innovative methods of staging. This edition includes the excised Gribsby scene from The Importance of Being Earnest.If you enjoyed The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays, you might like George Bernard Shaws Pygmalion, also available in Penguin Classics. Notes Includes Lady Windermeres Fan, Salome, A Woman Of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, A Florentine Tragedy and a full version of The Importance of Being Earnest Author Biography Born in Ireland, Oscar Fingal OFlahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900) was educated in Dublin & Oxford and went on to become the leading and most prominent exponent of flamboyant aestheticism. As well as his many plays, he wrote one novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), and published several volumes of poetry and criticism. He was imprisoned in 1895 for homosexual offences and after his release he died in exile in Paris. Richard Cave has edited a selection of Yeats plays for Penguin Classics. Promotional This reissue is designed to tie-in with the film version of "The Importance of Being Earnest" to be released nationwide from 30th August 2002. The film stars Colin Firth, Rupert Everett, Judi Dench and Reese Witherspoon. Review Text the man had style and wit and was a great influence on the theatre of his timeHamish Coghill, Evening News Details ISBN0140436065 Author Oscar Wilde Short Title IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST & Pages 464 Publisher Penguin Books Series Penguin Classics Language English ISBN-10 0140436065 ISBN-13 9780140436068 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 822.8 Year 2001 Publication Date 2001-03-31 Place of Publication London Illustrations illustrations Edition 1st Birth 1854 Death 1900 Tag pengblackclassics Edition Description Revised Residence Dublin, IE Edited by Richard Cave Imprint Penguin Classics DOI 10.1604/9780140436068 Audience General/Trade UK Release Date 2000-05-25 US Release Date 2001-03-01 Country of Publication United Kingdom NZ Release Date 2000-07-02 AU Release Date 2000-07-02 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:1083637;

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