The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics) by Peter Raby,Oscar Wilde

Published October 22nd 1998 by Oxford University Press. Oxford World's Classics, Oxford English Drama, Paperback, 400 pages. ISBN: 0192834444 (ISBN13: 9780192834447). Published March 17th 2013 by Pearl Necklace Books.

As for the book’s value as autobiography, Wilde noted in a letter that the main characters are in different ways reflections of him: Basil Hallward is what I think I am; Lord Henry what the world thinks me; Dorian what I would like to be-in other ages, perhaps. The importance of being earnest. The other plays in this volume are less interesting. They are chock-full of Wilde’s delicious, immortal epigrams (and that is imperative enough to read and enjoy them, and sufficient reason for their continuing revivals and occasional filmings), but they rarely transcend the characters’ conventionality or the now-tedious melodramatic situations in which they find themselves.

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remains a thing of inimitable brains and beauty; the sharpest of social satires, wrapped in the most perfect of gossamer-light romantic comedies" (Scotsman). Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin on 16 October 1854. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin and Magdalen College, Oxford. He later lived in London and married Constance Lloyd there in 1884. Wilde was a leader of the Aesthetic Movement. His only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, was first published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1890.

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

Uploaded by schooletc. Oxford University Press (First published as a Worlds Classics paperback 1995). Wilde was conscious that he was writing a very different kind of play, a farcical comedyadmirable for style, but fatal to handwriting, he informed Douglas. Wilde created something that transcended the genre of farce, delighting his contemporary audience though disconcerting some of his admirers, most notably Shaw, who found it heartless.

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