Lady Windermere's fan ; Salome ; A woman of no importance ; An ideal husband ; The importance of being earnest
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Lady Windermere's fan ; Salome ; A woman of no importance ; An ideal husband ; The importance of being earnest
（Oxford drama library）
Clarendon Press, 1995 , Oxford University Press, 1995
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The importance of being earnest and other plays
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Includes bibliographical references (p. xxviii-xxx)
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pbk. ISBN 9780192822468
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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. This collection offers newly edited texts of Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, Salome, An Ideal Husband, and, arguably the greatest farcical comedy in English, The Importance of Being Earnest.
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ISBN 9780198121671
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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 spearheded 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. Wilde's final dramatic triumph was his `trivial' comedy for serious people, The Importance of Being Earnest, arguably the greatest farcical comedy in
English.
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