The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
Autor Oscar Wilde Editat de Richard Caveen Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 mai 2000
'To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to losebothlooks like carelessness'
The Importance of Being Earnestis a glorious comedy of mistaken identity, which ridicules codes of propriety and etiquette. Snobbery and hypocrisy are also laid bare inLady Windermere's Fan,A Woman of No ImportanceandAn Ideal Husband, while inSaloméandA 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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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780140436068
ISBN-10: 0140436065
Pagini: 464
Ilustrații: illustrations
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Ediția:Revizuită
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0140436065
Pagini: 464
Ilustrații: illustrations
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Ediția:Revizuită
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
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.
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Oscar Wilde was already one of the best known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his extraordinary talents to the theatre. Between 1891 and 1895 he produced a sequence of distinctive plays which spearheaded the dramatic renaissance of the 1890s and retain their power today. The social comedies, Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, and An Ideal Husband, offer a moving as well as witty dissection of society and its morals, with a sharp focus on sexual politics. By contrast, the experimental, symbolist Salome, written originally in French, was banned for public performance by the English censor. His final dramatic triumph was his `trivial' comedy for serious people, The Importance of Being Earnest' arguably the greatest farcical comedy in English. Under the General Editorship of Dr Michael Cordner of the University of York, the texts of the plays have been newly edited and are presented with modernized spelling and punctuation. In addition, there is a scholarly introduction and detailed annotation. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Oscar Wilde was already one of the best known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his extraordinary talents to the theatre. Between 1891 and 1895 he produced a sequence of distinctive plays which spearheaded the dramatic renaissance of the 1890s and retain their power today. The social comedies, Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, and An Ideal Husband, offer a moving as well as witty dissection of society and its morals, with a sharp focus on sexual politics. By contrast, the experimental, symbolist Salome, written originally in French, was banned for public performance by the English censor. His final dramatic triumph was his `trivial' comedy for serious people, The Importance of Being Earnest' arguably the greatest farcical comedy in English. Under the General Editorship of Dr Michael Cordner of the University of York, the texts of the plays have been newly edited and are presented with modernized spelling and punctuation. In addition, there is a scholarly introduction and detailed annotation. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Recenzii
'the man had style and wit and was a great influence on the theatre of his time'Hamish Coghill, Evening News