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The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays by Oscar Wilde (Paperback, 2000)

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Combining epigrammatic brilliance and shrewd social observation, the works collected in Oscar Wilde's 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 carelessness' The 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 Wilde's sharp wit in Lady Windermere's 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 Wilde's 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 Cave's introduction and notes discuss the themes of the plays and Wilde's 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 Shaw's Pygmalion, also available in Penguin Classics.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN-13
9780140436068
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95494742

Product Key Features

Book Title
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
Author
Oscar Wilde
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Plays
Publication Year
2000
Number of Pages
464 Pages

Dimensions

Item Height
198mm
Item Width
129mm
Item Weight
319g

Additional Product Features

Title_Author
Oscar Wilde
Editor
Richard Cave
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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