The Importance of Being Earnest Paperback / softback
by Oscar Wilde
Edited by Professor Russell Jackson
Part of the New Mermaids series
Paperback / softback
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'A Trivial Comedy for Serious People': its subtitle is the best summary of a play that is the theatrical equivalent of a butterfly.
The verbal brilliance of its highly self-conscious characters hides deep anxieties about social and personal identity: Jack Worthing, found as a baby in a handbag at Victoria Station and named after a railway ticket, is prepared to be re-christened to obtain the Christian name - Earnest - his beloved Gwendolen requires in a husband; he then has to confront the stigma of being the illegitimate child of a servant, before fortune, and a benevolent dramatist, reveal his true and entirely respectable identity.
This is the only one-volume edition of the play to include an appendix with earlier versions and additional scenes that allow an appreciation of Wilde's creative process.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:176 pages, c 5 photographs/line drawings
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:28/04/1988
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- ISBN:9780713630404
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Unavailable
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:176 pages, c 5 photographs/line drawings
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:28/04/1988
- Category:
- ISBN:9780713630404
