by Oscar Wilde · Oxford University Press España, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780192834447
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«The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays» is a collection of theatre by Oscar Wilde (Oxford University Press, paperback, 400 pages, in English).
This volume brings together five plays by Oscar Wilde written between 1891 and 1895, including 'Lady Windermere's Fan', 'Salomé' and 'An Ideal Husband'. The social comedies portray with irony Victorian double standards and sentimental conflicts; 'Salomé' stands out as a symbolist drama banned in its time by the English censor.
Published in 1998 in the Oxford World's Classics series, edited by Peter Raby, with introduction, bibliography, notes and modernized spelling.
Suitable for readers of classic theatre and students of English literature seeking an annotated edition with critical apparatus.
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.
