The importance of being earnest : authoritative text, backgrounds, criticism

Author(s)

• Wilde, Oscar
• Gillespie, Michael Patrick

Bibliographic Information

The importance of being earnest : authoritative text, backgrounds, criticism

Oscar Wilde ; edited by Michael Patrick Gillespie

（Norton critical editions）

W.W. Norton, c2006

1st ed

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-209)

Description and Table of Contents

Description

"Backgrounds" includes essays on Wilde and the 1890s by prominent cultural critics Joseph Donohue, Regenia Gagnier, and Karl Beckson. "Reviews and Reactions" collects contemporary responses to The Importance of Being Earnest, among them George Bernard Shaw's famous dissenting view and the American assessment by H. F. "Essays in Criticism" includes six diverse assessments of Wilde and the play by E. H. Mikhail, Camille Paglia, Christopher Craft, Michael Patrick Gillespie, Peter Raby, and Richard Haslam. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

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Details

• NCID: BA74749544
• ISBN:
  • 9780393927535
• LCCN: 2005052741
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 209 p.
• Size: 21 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PR5818
  • DC22 : 822/.8
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Identity (Psychology) -- Drama
  • LCSH : Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. Importance of being Earnest
  • LCSH : Foundlings -- Drama
  • LCSH : England -- Drama
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00246310