The Importance Of Being Earnest And Other Plays

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-07
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781101560150

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The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays by Oscar Wilde Pdf

A universal favorite, The Importance of Being Earnest displays Oscar Wilde’s wit and theatrical genius at their brilliant best. Subtitled “A Trivial Comedy for Serious People,” this hilarious attack on Victorian manners and morals turns a pompous world on its head, lets duplicity lead to happiness, and makes riposte the highest form of art. Written, according to Wilde, “by a butterfly for butterflies,” it is a dazzling masterpiece of comic entertainment. Although it was originally written in four acts, The Importance of Being Earnest is usually performed in a three-act version. This authoritative edition features an appendix that restores valuable lines that appeared in the original. Also included in this special collection are Wilde’s first comedy success, Lady Windermere’s Fan, and his richly sensual melodrama, Salomé, which he called “that terrible coloured little tragedy I once in some strange mood wrote”—and which shocked and enraged the censors of his time. Includes an Introduction by Sylvan Barnet and an Afterword by Elise Bruhl and Michael Gamer

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1895*
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0712904115

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A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde Pdf

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : First Avenue Editions ™
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781467756549

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The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde Pdf

Jack Worthing gets antsy living at his country estate. As an excuse, he spins tales of his rowdy brother Earnest living in London. When Jack rushes to the city to confront his "brother," he's free to become Earnest and live a different lifestyle. In London, his best friend, Algernon, begins to suspect Earnest is leading a double life. Earnest confesses that his real name is Jack and admits the ruse has become tricky as two women have become enchanted with the idea of marrying Earnest. On a whim, Algernon also pretends to be Earnest and encounters the two women as they meet at the estate. With two Earnests who aren't really earnest and two women in love with little more than a name, this play is a classic comedy of errors. This is an unabridged version of Oscar Wilde's English play, first published in 1899.

Author : Hannah Cowley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1825
Category : Drama
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000043506

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The Belle's Stratagem by Hannah Cowley Pdf

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781537822570

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Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde Pdf

Beautiful, aristocratic, an adored wife and young mother, Lady Windermere is 'a fascinating puritan' whose severe moral code leads her to the brink of social suicide. The only one who can save her is the mysterious Mrs Erlynne whose scandalous relationship with Lord Windermere has prompted her fatal impulse. And Mrs Erlynne has a secret - a secret Lady Windermere must never know if she is to retain her peace of mind.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780199535972

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The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays by Oscar Wilde Pdf

Oscar Wilde was already one of the best known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his extraordinary talents to the theatre. This is the only fully annotated edition of Wilde's major plays, which spearheaded the dramatic renaissance of the 1890s and retain their power today.[BOX TO GO ABOVE PLAYS] Under the General Editorship of Dr Michael Cordner of the University of York, the texts of these plays have been newly edited and are presented with modernized spelling and punctuation. In addition, there is a scholarly introduction and detailed annotation.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PSU:000029571154

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Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde Pdf

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1840224185

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The Plays of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde Pdf

Oscar Wilde took London by storm with his first comedy, Lady Windermere's Fan. His other plays include: A Woman of No Importance and The Importance of Being Earnest. This work features Wilde's plays ranging from his early tragedy era to the controversial Salome and little known fragments, La Sainte Courtisane and A Florentine Tragedy.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : NHB Classic Plays
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : England
ISBN : 185459589X

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Wilde by Oscar Wilde Pdf

All four of Wilde's famous plays in one bargain-priced volume.

Author : Alan Bird
Publisher : London : Vision Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015001794380

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The Plays of Oscar Wilde by Alan Bird Pdf

Author : Peter Raby
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105016295763

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The Importance of Being Earnest by Peter Raby Pdf

"Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest is one of the world's great comedies, an amazing success given that the play seems particularly concerned with subtle details of manners and mores set in a quite specific era, and in a most distinct milieu. Since the first production was staged in 1895, The Importance of Being Earnest has been one of the most frequently performed plays in the modern English language repertory." "Peter Raby provides a resourceful and entertaining analysis of Wilde's celebrated play in The Importance of Being Earnest: A Reader's Companion. Far and away the most elaborate and informed study of the play, Raby hits all the requisite elements: genesis, structure and style, characters, and Wilde's historical and societal importance, among other aspects. He thoroughly explores the impact of the play on London's social values, providing frequent notes about Wilde and his times. His discussion of the origins and social context of the play is especially rewarding, including such tidbits as Wilde's financial pressures, characters' vocabulary and speech habits, and the way in which a response to a cucumber sandwich is a telling social gesture. So too does he make the reader aware of those attributes that render Wilde's writing so delightful: the quick elegance of his language, his masterful use of symmetry, his visual awareness and acute powers of description. Raby's keen interpretation and perception provide not just insight into a radiant work, but understanding of how a play aimed entirely at the money-making medium of the London stage managed to achieve - and maintain - such a high level of artistic accomplishment."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781509846740

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The Importance of Being Earnest & Other Plays by Oscar Wilde Pdf

The four great comedies of Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, were all written at the height of the controversial Irish author's powers in his last, doomed decade, the 1890s. They remain among the most-loved, and most-quoted, of all drama in the English language. Along with Salome, his darkly decadent dramatization of the Bible story, these immortal plays continue to pack theatres, and have been adapted for every kind of media. This Macmillan Collector's Library edition of The Importance of Being Earnest & Other Plays echoes the book form in which Wilde originally insisted his plays were published, and includes illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley and an afterword by Ned Halley. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover.

Author : Lame Deer,Richard Erdoes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1994-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780671888022

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Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions by Lame Deer,Richard Erdoes Pdf

Lame Deer Storyteller, rebel, medicine man, Lame Deer was born almost a century ago on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. A full-blooded Sioux, he was many things in the white man's world -- rodeo clown, painter, prisioner. But, above all, he was a holy man of the Lakota tribe. Seeker of Vision The story he tells is one of harsh youth and reckless manhood, shotgun marriage and divorce, history and folklore as rich today as ever -- and of his fierce struggle to keep pride alive, though living as a stranger in his own ancestral land.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : England
ISBN : 0451521331

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The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde Pdf

Contains three plays by nineteenth-century Irish author Oscar Wilde, featuring the title work, a comedy of mixed identity about a man who, as a child, was absentmindedly placed in a handbag and left at the railroad station; and including "Lady Windermere's Fan," and "Salome."

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0435233033

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The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde Pdf

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