The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

Name: The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
Brand: Penguin Classics
SKU: 0140436065
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ISBN: 9780140436068

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25 May, 2000

By Oscar Wilde(Author), Richard Cave(Edited by), Richard Cave(Introduction by)

Lady Windermere's Fan/Salomé/A Woman of No Importance/An Ideal Husband/A Florentine Tragedy/The Importance of Being Earnest'To lose one parent may be rega...

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ISBN-10:

0140436065

ISBN-13:

9780140436068

Edition

Revised Edition

Publisher

Penguin Classics

No.of Pages

464

Dimensions

7.76 X 5.08 X 0.79 inches

Description

Lady Windermere's Fan/Salomé/A Woman of No Importance/An Ideal Husband/A Florentine Tragedy/The Importance of Being Earnest

'To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness'

The Importance of Being Earnest is a glorious comedy of mistaken identity, which ridicules codes of propriety and etiquette. Snobbery and hypocrisy are also laid bare in Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband, while in Salomé and A Florentine Tragedy, Wilde uses historical settings to explore the complex relationship between sex and power. The range of these plays displays Wilde's delight in artifice, masks and disguises, and reveals the pretensions of the social world in which he himself played such a dazzling and precarious part.

Edited with Introduction, Commentaries and Notes by Richard Allen Cave

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ISBN-10

: 0140436065

ISBN-13

: 9780140436068

Publisher

: Penguin Classics

Publication date

: 25 May, 2000

Edition

: Revised Edition

About the Author

Born in Ireland, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie 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.