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Title: |
The Importance of Being Earnest |
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| By (author): |
Oscar Wilde Edited by: Samuel Lyndon Gladden |
| ISBN10-13: |
1551116944 : 9781551116945 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pages: |
224 |
| Weight: |
.313 Kg. |
| Published: |
Broadview Press - November 2009 |
| List Price: |
19.25 Pounds Sterling |
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In Stock
Qty Available: 44 |
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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 Wildeâ s personal downfall when his loverâ s father, who would later bring about Wildeâ 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 Wildeâ 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. |
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