The Plays of Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde took London by storm with his first comedy, Lady Windermere's Fan. The combination of dazzling wit, subtle social criticism, sumptuous settings and the theme of a guilty secret proved a winner, both here and in his next three plays, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, and his...
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Oscar Wilde took London by storm with his first comedy, Lady Windermere's Fan. The combination of dazzling wit, subtle social criticism, sumptuous settings and the theme of a guilty secret proved a winner, both here and in his next three plays, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, and his undisputed masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest. This volume includes all Wilde's plays from his early tragedy Vera to the controversial Salomé and the little known fragments, La Sainte Courtisane and A Florentine Tragedy. The edition affords a rare chance to see Wilde's best known work in the context of his entire dramatic output, and to appreciate plays which have hitherto received scant critical attention.
Wilde's plays have never failed to delight audiences and are a lasting testimony to their author's supreme wit and theatrical genius.
źródło opisu: Wordworth Editions Ltd, 2000
źródło okładki: http://www.wordsworth-editions.com
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Format: papier
ISBN:
9781840224184
Publish date: 20 kwietnia 2000
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pages no: 480
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
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