by Oscar Wilde · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140482096
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«The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays» is Oscar Wilde's theatre collection, published by Penguin in paperback (352 pages, in English).
It brings together six plays by Oscar Wilde: «Lady Windermere's Fan», «Salomé», «A Woman of No Importance», «An Ideal Husband», «A Florentine Tragedy» and «The Importance of Being Earnest», the last with the «Grigsby» scene that was its fourth act. Wilde's theatre combines epigrammatic wit with a satirical look at Victorian society.
1986 edition, from the Penguin Plays collection. Includes «Salomé» in Lord Alfred Douglas's translation, as Wilde originally wrote it in French.
Recommended for readers of classic theatre, nineteenth-century English literature and admirers of Oscar Wilde's wit.
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s. He was a key figure in the emerging Aestheticism movement of the late 19th century and is widely regarded as the greatest playwright of the Victorian era. Wilde is best known for his Gothic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), his epigrams, plays and bedtime stories for children, as well as his criminal conviction in 1895 for gross indecency and for practicing homosexual acts.
