The importance of being earnest : a trivial comedy for serious people

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The importance of being earnest : a trivial comedy for serious people

Oscar Wilde ; edited by Russell Jackson

(The new mermaids)

A & C Black , W.W. Norton, 2004, c1980

  • : uk
  • : us

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 37-38)

First New Mermaid edition 1980 by Earnest Benn Limited

"2004 with new cover"--T.p.verso

Differs from<BA11627746> in pagination

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'A Trivial Comedy for Serious People': its subtitle is the best summary of a play that is the theatrical equivalent of a butterfly. The verbal brilliance of its highly self-conscious characters hides deep anxieties about social and personal identity: Jack Worthing, found as a baby in a handbag at Victoria Station and named after a railway ticket, is prepared to be re-christened to obtain the Christian name - Earnest - his beloved Gwendolen requires in a husband; he then has to confront the stigma of being the illegitimate child of a servant, before fortune, and a benevolent dramatist, reveal his true and entirely respectable identity. This is the only one-volume edition of the play to include an appendix with earlier versions and additional scenes that allow an appreciation of Wilde's creative process.

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