Name: The Importance of Being Earnest
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Author: Oscar Wilde
ISBN: 9781350141933

Type

Physical Book

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Publisher

Year

2022

Language

English

Pages

128

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.9 x 13.3 x 0.9 cm

Weight

0.11 kg.

ISBN13

9781350141933

Edition No.

0002

Synopsis "The Importance of Being Earnest"

After all, who has the right to cast a stone against one who has suffered? Cannot repentance wipe out an act of folly? Why should there be one law for me and another for women? Wilde's 'trivial play for serious people', a sparkling comedy of manners, is the epitome of wit and style. This brilliantly constructed satire with its celebrated characters and much-quoted dialogue turns accepted ideas inside out and is generally regarded as Wilde's masterpiece. This Methuen Drama Student Edition of the play includes commentary and notes by Lucie Sutherland, Assistant Professor in Drama at the University of Nottingham, UK, which investigate the play through a contemporary lens, bringing in the contributions from queer scholarship and discussions of recent productions of the play.

Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde is considered one of the most prominent playwrights of late Victorian London. Additionally, he was a celebrity of the time due to his great and sharp wit. Today, he is remembered for his epigrams, his short stories, his plays, his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the tragedy of his imprisonment, followed by his premature death.

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