The importance of being earnest & four other plays
Mainland Spain
- ISBN13 9781593080594
- ISBN10 159308059X
- Type BOOK
- Pages 384
- Published 2003
- Language English
- Bookbinding Rustic
Subjects
English LiteratureThe importance of being earnest & four other plays
Mainland Spain
Book details
Oscar Wilde’s legendary wit dazzles in The Importance of Being Earnest, one of the greatest and most popular works of drama to emerge from Victorian England. A light-hearted satire of the absurdity of all forms and conventions, this comic masterpiece features an unforgettable cast of characters who, as critic Max Beerbohm observed, “speak a kind of beautiful nonsensethe language of high comedy, twisted into fantasy.”
This collection also includes Oscar Wilde’s most famous comedies, Lady Windermere’s Fan, A Woman of No Importance, and An Ideal Husband, as well as his poetic tragedy Saloméall written between 1891 and 1895, Wilde’s most creative period. George Bernard Shaw said of Oscar Wilde that he is “our most thorough playwright. He plays with everything: with wit, with philosophy, with drama, with actors and audience, with the whole theater.”
Kenneth Krauss received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He teaches drama at the College of Saint Rose, where he also directs and produces. His most recent book is The Drama of Fallen France, on French theater under the German Occupation.
Features illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley