oscar wilde the importance of being earnest and other plays

|a England |x Social life and customs |y 19th century |0 |v Drama. |a Algernon pretends to be Jack's troublesome younger brother, in Wilde's satirical assault on nineteenth-century fashions, manners, and morality. |t Introduction - |t Chronology - |t Salomé - |t Lady Windermere's fan - |t Importance of being earnest : a trivial comedy for serious people - |t Appendix: |t Gribsby episode in The importance of being earnest - |t Afterword. |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-201). The Importance of Being Earnest is Oscar Wilde’s most popular play today, enduring thanks to its easy humor, witty dialog, and clever satire. My thesis is that Wilde employed the well-established Late Victorian concept of double identity as well as a dualistic theme in the play, revealed in the. |a This edition features an appendix that restores lines that appeared in the original four-act play. |a New York : |b Signet Classics, |c 2012. |a The importance of being earnest and other plays / |c Oscar Wilde with an introduction by Sylvan Barnet and a new afterword by Elise Bruhl and Michael Gamer. Review of THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST Oscar Wilde 1895, in The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays, Penguin 2000 The same time I was reading Wilde’s comedy, I saw playwright Constance (Connie) Congdon speak at a Kennedy Center Dramatist Guild Legacy Award Conversation. Combining epigrammatic brilliance and shrewd social observation, the works collected in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays are edited with an introduction, commentaries and notes by Richard Allen Cave in Penguin Classics.

Oscar wilde the importance of being earnest and other plays