The importance of being earnest : authoritative text, backgrounds, criticism / Oscar Wilde ; edited by Michael Patrick Gillespie.
"The text of this ... [edition] of Oscar Wilde's comedic tour-de-force is the established three-act version, accompanied by explanatory annotations. The Importance of Being Earnest was originally written in four acts, but Wilde shortened it to three at the urging of George Alexander, the o...
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| 505 | 0 | |a The text of The importance of being Earnest -- Excised portions of the play -- Backgrounds -- London in the 1890s / Karl Beckson -- Wilde and the idea of a theatre / Joseph Donohue -- Creating the audience / Regenia Gagnier -- Criticism -- Reviews and reactions -- On The importance of being Earnest / William Archer -- On The importance of being Earnest / H.F. -- On The importance of being Earnest / George Bernard Shaw -- On The importance of being Earnest / H.G. Wells -- Essays in criticism -- The four-act version of The importance of being Earnest / E.H. Mikhail -- From faltering arrow to pistol shot : The importance of being Earnest / Eva Thienpont -- Oscar Wilde and the English epicene / Camille A. Paglia -- Alias Bunbury : desire and termination in The importance of being Earnest / Christopher Craft -- From Beau Brummell to Lady Bracknell : re-viewing the Dandy in The importance of being Earnest / Michael Patrick Gillespie -- The genesis of the play / Peter Raby -- Oscar Wilde and the imagination of the Celt / Richard Haslam -- Oscar Wilde : a chronology. | |
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