The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays, 2nd Edition
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- Paperback
496 pages
- Release Date
11 May 2025
Summary
‘It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.’
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) proclaims that it is ‘A Trivial Play for Serious People’. In fact, collected here alongside Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), Salome (1891, 1894), A Woman of No Importance (1893), and An Ideal Husband (1895), Earnest shows that the questions raised by Wilde’s plays are anything but trivial. Witty and radical,…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780192848024 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 019284802X |
| Author: | Oscar Wilde, Kate Hext |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 496 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 11 May 2025 |
| Weight: | 342g |
| Dimensions: | 24mm x 130mm x 197mm |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
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Oscar Wilde
Kate Hext is an Associate Professor of Decadent Literature and the Arts at the University of Exeter and Visiting Professor of English at Ewha Womans University. Her publications include Wilde in the Dream Factory: Decadence and the American Movies (OUP), Walter Pater: Individualism and Aesthetic Philosophy, and, as co-editor, Decadence in the Age of Modernism. She is founding co-editor of the journal Cusp: Late 19th-/Early 20th-Century Cultures.
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