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The importance of being earnest and other plays / Oscar Wilde ; edited with an introduction, commentaries, and notes by Richard Allen Cave.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Penguin classicsPublication details: London ; New York : Penguin Books, 2000.Description: xxx, 431 p. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 0140436065
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 822/.8 21
LOC classification:
  • PR5812 .C38 2000
Contents:
Lady Windermere's fan -- Salomé -- A woman of no importance -- An ideal husband -- A Florentine tragedy -- The importance of being earnest.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 822.8 W672 Available 33111004157380
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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

Includes bibliographical references (p. xxix-xxx).

Lady Windermere's fan -- Salomé -- A woman of no importance -- An ideal husband -- A Florentine tragedy -- The importance of being earnest.

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