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Lady Windermere's fan ; Salome ; A woman of no importance ; An ideal husband ; The importance of being earnest

Author: Oscar Wilde; Peter Raby
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
Series: Oxford drama library.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This series presents students with a library of outstanding plays, many of which are otherwise unobtainable, or available only in out-of-date or unannotated editions. The texts are newly edited, with modernized spelling and punctuation where appropriate; and there are scholarly introductions and annotation. Oscar Wilde was already one of the best-known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his  Read more...
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Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900.
Lady Windermere's fan.
Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995
(OCoLC)680139000
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Oscar Wilde; Peter Raby
ISBN: 0198121679 9780198121671 0192822462 9780192822468
OCLC Number: 31740326
Description: xxxii, 368 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Lady Windermere's fan ; Salome ; A woman of no importance ; An ideal husband ; The importance of being earnest
Series Title: Oxford drama library.
Other Titles: Plays.
Lady Windermere's fan ; Salome ; A woman of no importance ; An ideal husband ; The importance of being earnest
Importance of being earnest and other plays
Responsibility: Oscar Wilde ; edited with an introduction by Peter Raby ; general editor, Michael Cordner ; associate general editors, Peter Holland, Martin Wiggins.
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This series presents students with a library of outstanding plays, many of which are otherwise unobtainable, or available only in out-of-date or unannotated editions. The texts are newly edited, with modernized spelling and punctuation where appropriate; and there are scholarly introductions and annotation. 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. Between 1891 and 1895 he produced a sequence of distinctive plays which spearheaded the dramatic renaissance of the 1890s, and retain their power today. The social comedies, Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, and An Ideal Husband, offer a moving as well as witty dissection of society and its morals, with a sharp focus on sexual politics. By contrast, the experimental, symbolist Salome, written originally in French, was banned for public performance by the English censor. Wilde's final dramatic triumph was his 'trivial' comedy for serious people, The Importance of Being Earnest, arguably the greatest farcical comedy in English.

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