by Oscar Wilde · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140436068
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«The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays» is Oscar Wilde's collection of plays, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (464 pages).
This volume brings together six plays by Oscar Wilde, including The Importance of Being Earnest, a comedy of mistaken identities that ridicules Victorian conventions. The drawing-room comedies lay bare hypocrisy and snobbery, while Salomé and A Florentine Tragedy explore the relationship between desire and power in historical settings.
2001 edition with introduction, commentary and notes by Richard Allen Cave; includes the suppressed 'Gribsby' scene from The Importance of Being Earnest.
For lovers of classic theatre and Victorian satire who want to discover other works by Wilde besides The Importance of Being Earnest.
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s. He was a key figure in the emerging Aestheticism movement of the late 19th century and is widely regarded as the greatest playwright of the Victorian era. Wilde is best known for his Gothic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), his epigrams, plays and bedtime stories for children, as well as his criminal conviction in 1895 for gross indecency and for practicing homosexual acts.
