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Titel: The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
Zustand: Neu
EAN: 9780140436068
ISBN: 9780140436068
Verlag: Penguin Classics
Produktart: Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum: 25.05.2000
Höhe: 198mm
Länge: 129mm
Breite: 20mm
Gewicht: 319g
Autor: Oscar Wilde
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0140436065
Description:

Lady Windermere's Fan/Salomé/A Woman of No Importance/An Ideal Husband/A Florentine Tragedy/The Importance of Being Earnest

'To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness'

The Importance of Being Earnest is a glorious comedy of mistaken identity, which ridicules codes of propriety and etiquette. Snobbery and hypocrisy are also laid bare in Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband, while in Salomé and A Florentine Tragedy, Wilde uses historical settings to explore the complex relationship between sex and power. The range of these plays displays Wilde's delight in artifice, masks and disguises, and reveals the pretensions of the social world in which he himself played such a dazzling and precarious part.

Edited with Introduction, Commentaries and Notes by Richard Allen Cave

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