| Wilde Complete Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest; A Woman of No Importance; Salome; The Duches Contributor(s): Wilde, Oscar (Author) |
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ISBN: 0413187608 ISBN-13: 9780413187604 Publisher: Methuen Drama OUR PRICE: $29.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2009 Annotation: Oscar Wilde's complete dramatic works are brought together in this volume now re-issued: his masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest ('The first Act is ingenious, the second beautiful, the third abominably clever!' -- his own comment), printed here in its usual three-act form with an appendix containing the best material from the original four-act version; Lady Windermere's Fan, his first great success ('I am told that Royalty is turned away nightly'), A Woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband, ('Pray do not take out a single word' -- the Prince of Wales), as well as his once-banned Salome and several less well-known plays, The Duchess of Padua, Vera, or The Nihilists, A Florentine Tragedy and La Sainte Courtisane. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 822.8 |
| Series: World Classics |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 5" W x 7.8" (1.35 lbs) 624 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume contains everything Wilde wrote in dramatic form Wilde's masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest is printed here in its usual three-act form, but with an appendix containing the best material from the original four-act version. Also included are his three 'problem plays', Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband, as well as his once-banned Salome and several other little-known but fascinating dramas. H. Montgomery Hyde, an acknowledged expert on Wilde and author of several books on him, provides an introduction to Wilde's life and work with special attention to the composition and performance of the plays.Wilde is to me our only thorough playwright. He plays with everything: with wit, with philosophy, with drama, with actors and audiences, with the whole theatre (George Bernard Shaw) |
Contributor Bio(s): Wilde, Oscar: - Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin in 1856. In the years following his graduation from Oxford in 1878 he published poems and stories which included The Picture of Dorian Gray. Lady Windermere's Fan was produced in 1892, A Woman of No Importance in 1893 and An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest in 1895. Later work included De Profundis and The Ballad of Reading Gaol. He died in 1900. |