The Importance Of Being Earnest And Four Other Plays

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Barnes And Noble
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 2003
Edition:

Description: 384 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: The Importance of Being Earnest and Four Other Plays, by Oscar Wilde, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich each readers understanding of these enduring works. Oscar Wildes legendary wit dazzles in The Importance of Being Earnest, one of the greatest and most popular works of drama to emerge from Victorian England. A light-hearted satire of the absurdity of all forms and conventions, this comic masterpiece features an unforgettable cast of characters who, as critic Max Beerbohm observed, “speak a kind of beautiful nonsense—the language of high comedy, twisted into fantasy.�This collection also includes Oscar Wildes most famous comedies, Lady Windermeres Fan, A Woman of No Importance, and An Ideal Husband, as well as his poetic tragedy Salom—all written between 1891 and 1895, Wildes most creative period. George Bernard Shaw said of Oscar Wilde that he is “our most thorough playwright. He plays with everything: with wit, with philosophy, with drama, with actors and audience, with the whole theater.�Kenneth Krauss received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He teaches drama at the College of Saint Rose, where he also directs and produces. His most recent book is The Drama of Fallen France, on French theater under the German Occupation.

ISBN: 9781593080594