The Importance Of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy For Serious People (Plays By Wilde) - Softcover

Wilde, Oscar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 150253214X ISBN 13: 9781502532145

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

A farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personę to escape burdensome social obligations. Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the play's major themes are the triviality with which it treats institutions as serious as marriage, and the resulting satire of Victorian ways.

About this title

About the Author:

Born in Ireland, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900) was educated in Dublin & Oxford and went on to become the leading and most prominent exponent of flamboyant aestheticism. As well as his many plays, he wrote one novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), and published several volumes of poetry and criticism. He was imprisoned in 1895 for homosexual offences and after his release he died in exile in Paris. Richard Cave has edited a selection of Yeats' plays for Penguin Classics.

Review:

"In short, there is material aplenty here for the average reader and considerable matter for the specialist." --English Literature in Transition 1880-1920

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 150253214X
• ISBN 13: 9781502532145
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64