Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

Herausgeber: Hext, Kate

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A new edition of Oscar Wilde's witty and radical major plays that elegantly challenge Victorian conceptions of social propriety. It contains an accessible and comprehensive new introduction that positions the plays in the context of Wilde's life, career, and the late-Victorian stage.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 129mm
• ISBN-13: 9780192848024
• ISBN-10: 019284802X
• Artikelnr.: 71660749

Autorenporträt

Kate Hext is an Associate Professor of Decadent Literature and the Arts at the University of Exeter and Visiting Professor of English at Ewha Womans University. Her publications include Wilde in the Dream Factory: Decadence and the American Movies (OUP), Walter Pater: Individualism and Aesthetic Philosophy, and, as co-editor, Decadence in the Age of Modernism. She is founding co-editor of the journal Cusp: Late 19th-/Early 20th-Century Cultures.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Note on the Text
Select Bibliography
A Chronology of Oscar Wilde
LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN
SALOME
A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE
AN IDEAL HUSBAND
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
Appendix: Illustrations to Salome by Aubrey Beardsley
Explanatory Notes