Annotated Importance of Being Earnest

The Annotated Importance of Being Earnest provides facing-page commentary on Oscar Wilde¿s greatest play. Editor Nicholas Frankel highlights the play¿s relation to the author¿s homosexuality and to the climate of sexual repression that led to Wilde¿s imprisonment just months after the play¿s London opening in 1895.

About the author

Nicholas Frankel has published many books about Oscar Wilde, including Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years, The Short Stories of Oscar Wilde, The Annotated Prison Writings of Oscar Wilde, The Invention of Oscar Wilde, and The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition. He is Professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Summary

The Annotated Importance of Being Earnest provides facing-page commentary on Oscar Wilde’s greatest play. Editor Nicholas Frankel highlights the play’s relation to the author’s homosexuality and to the climate of sexual repression that led to Wilde’s imprisonment just months after the play’s London opening in 1895.

Product details

• Authors: Oscar Wilde
• Assisted by: Nicholas Frankel (Editor), Frankel Nicholas (Editor)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.02.2015
• EAN: 9780674048980
• ISBN: 978-0-674-04898-0
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Drama, DRAMA / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Plays, Playscripts, Literary studies: plays and playwrights