The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

Oscar Wilde, Richard Cave, Richard Cave , Richard Cave

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Penguin
25 May 2000

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Wilde was both a glittering wordsmith and a social outsider. His drama emerges out of these two perhaps contradictory identities, combining epigrammatic brilliance and shrewd social observation. Includes Lady Windermere's Fan, Salome, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, A Florentine Tragedy and The Importance of Being Earnest, which appears in full with the ""Grigsby"" scene which originally made up the fourth act.

By: Oscar Wilde
Notes by: Richard Cave
Introduction by: Richard Cave
Edited by: Richard Cave
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 322g
ISBN: 9780140436068
ISBN 10: 0140436065
Pages: 464
Publication Date: 25 May 2000
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.