Wilde / Hext

The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

2nd edition

Oxford University Press

ISBN 978-0-19-284802-4

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Buch. Softcover

2nd edition. 2025

In englischer Sprache

Umfang: 496 S.

Format (B x L): 13.2 x 19.7 cm

Gewicht: 342

Verlag: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 978-0-19-284802-4

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'It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.'

The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) proclaims that it is 'A Trivial Play for Serious People'. In fact, collected here alongside Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), Salome (1891, 1894), A Woman of No Importance (1893), and An Ideal Husband (1895), Earnest shows that the questions raised by Wilde's plays are anything but trivial. Witty and radical, they elegantly challenge Victorian social proprieties, featuring lies, blackmail, illicit desires, seductions, and double lives.

This volume, edited by Kate Hext, positions Wilde's major plays in the context of Wilde's life, career, and late-Victorian culture. Its introduction provides a readable overview with stylistic analyses to help readers understand the plays and why they are still fresh and relevant today, followed by sections on each play which explain key figures, plot devices, and Wilde's evolution as a dramatist.

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