The Importance of Being the Earnest

Informationen zum Autor Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland. Wilde studied at Trinity College in Dublin and at Magdalen College in Oxford, England, before settling down in London and having a long, successful career as a poet, playwright, and author. Wilde is best known for his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray and for his satirical play The Importance of Being Earnest. Klappentext "Backgrounds" includes essays on Wilde and the 1890s by prominent cultural critics Joseph Donohue, Regenia Gagnier, and Karl Beckson. "Reviews and Reactions" collects contemporary responses to The Importance of Being Earnest, among them George Bernard Shaw's famous dissenting view and the American assessment by H. F. "Essays in Criticism" includes six diverse assessments of Wilde and the play by E. H. Mikhail, Camille Paglia, Christopher Craft, Michael Patrick Gillespie, Peter Raby, and Richard Haslam. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Patrick Gillespie, Oscar Wilde
• Assisted by: Michael Patrick Gillespie (Editor)
• Publisher: Norton W W Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.02.2006
• EAN: 9780393927535
• ISBN: 978-0-393-92753-5
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 211 mm x 11 mm
• Series: Norton Critical Editions; Norton Critical Edition; Norton Critical Editions; Norton Critical Edition
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature