Complete Plays
This volume contains everything Wilde wrote in dramatic form including his masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest -- printed here in its usual three-act form, but with an appendix containing the best material from the original four-act version. Also included are his three 'problem plays',...
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This volume contains everything Wilde wrote in dramatic form including his masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest -- printed here in its usual three-act form, but with an appendix containing the best material from the original four-act version. Also included are his three 'problem plays', Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband, as well as
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Methuen World Classics
Pages no: 606
Edition language: English
My introduction to Oscar Wilde was the 1999 film made of An Ideal Husband with Rupert Everett and Minnie Driver. I loved it! Witty, romantic. So one day when I saw this book in a used book store, I grabbed it. As it turned out, I had read, or rather experienced another of these plays before--Salome....
Introduction--Lady Windermere's Fan--An Ideal Husband--The Importance of being Earnest--A Woman of No Importance--Salomé--The Duchess of Padua--Vera, or The Nihilists--A Florentine Tragedy--La Sainte Courtisane