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, c2023

2nd ed

• : pbk.

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-201)

Description and Table of Contents

Description

"Backgrounds" includes essays on Wilde and the 1890s by prominent cultural critics Karl Beckson, Sharon Marcus, and Michael Patrick Gillespie. "Early Reviews and Reactions" collects contemporary responses to The Importance of Being Earnest, including George Bernard Shaw's famous dissenting review and other commentary by H. G. Wells, Hamilton Fyfe, and William Archer. "Essays in Criticism" includes seven diverse assessments-six of them new to the Second Edition-of Wilde and the play by E. H. Mikhail, Burkhard Niederhoff, Christopher S. Nassaar, Clifton Snider, Brigitte Bastiat, Eibhear Walshe, and Maneck H. Daruwala. A chronology and selected bibliography are also included.

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Details

• NCID: BC18073024
• ISBN:
  • 9780393421972
• LCCN: 2021026533
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xv, 201 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 822.8
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. Importance of being earnest
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00246310