The Importance of Being Earnest

By:

Oscar Wilde

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Broadview Editions

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The Importance of Being Earnest marks a central moment in late-Victorian literature, not only for its wit but also for its role in the shift from a Victorian to a Modern consciousness. The play began its career as a biting satire directed at the very audience who received it so delightedly, but ended its initial run as a harbinger of Wilde's personal downfall when his lover's father, who would later bring about Wilde's arrest and imprisonment, attempted to disrupt the production. In addition to its focus on the textual history of the play, this Broadview Edition of Earnest provides a wide array of appendices. The edition locates Wilde's work among the artistic and cultural contexts of the late nineteenth century and will provide scholars, students, and general readers with an important sourcebook for the play and the social, creative, and critical contexts of mid-1890s English life.

Author Biography:

Samuel Lyndon Gladden is Associate Professor, Coordinator of Graduate Studies in English, and Dean's Faculty Administrative Fellow for the College of Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of Northern Iowa.

Release date Australia

November 30th, 2009

Author

Oscar Wilde

Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Undergraduate

Contributor

Edited by Samuel Lyndon Gladden

Pages

224

Series

Broadview Editions

Dimensions

216x140x11

ISBN-13

9781551116945

Product ID

3640042

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