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The Importance of Being Earnest de Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Earnest

Autor Oscar Wilde Ilustrat de Alex Struik
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The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at St. James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae in order to escape burdensome social obligations. Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the play's major themes are the triviality with which it treats institutions as serious as marriage, and the resulting satire of Victorian ways. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams and plays, and the circumstances of his imprisonment which was followed by his early death.
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ISBN-13: 9781480098299
ISBN-10: 1480098299
Pagini: 102
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 5 mm
Greutate: 0.15 kg
Editura: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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The Importance of Being Earnest marks a central moment in late-Victorian literature, not only for its wit but also for its role in the shift from a Victorian to a Modern consciousness. The play began its career as a biting satire directed at the very audience who received it so delightedly, but ended its initial run as a harbinger of Wilde’s personal downfall when his lover’s father, who would later bring about Wilde’s arrest and imprisonment, attempted to disrupt the production.
In addition to its focus on the textual history of the play, this Broadview Edition of Earnest provides a wide array of appendices. The edition locates Wilde’s work among the artistic and cultural contexts of the late nineteenth century and will provide scholars, students, and general readers with an important sourcebook for the play and the social, creative, and critical contexts of mid-1890s English life.

Textul de pe ultima copertă

The Importance of Being Earnest shows a full measure of Oscar Wilde's legendary wit, and embodies more than any of his other plays, his decency and warmth. This edition contains substantial excerpts from the original four-act version which was never produed, as well as the full test of the final three-act version, selections from Wilde's correspondence, and commentary by George Bernard Shaw, Max Beerbohm, St. John Hankin, and James Agate.

Notă biografică

Oscar Wilde (16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for "gross indecency", imprisonment, and early death at age 46.
Wilde's parents were successful Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. Their son became fluent in French and German early in life. At university, Wilde read Greats; he proved himself to be an outstanding classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Oxford. He became known for his involvement in the rising philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles.
As a spokesman for aestheticism, he tried his hand at various literary activities: he published a book of poems, lectured in the United States and Canada on the new "English Renaissance in Art" and interior decoration, and then returned to London where he worked prolifically as a journalist. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress and glittering conversational skill, Wilde became one of the best-known personalities of his day. At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into what would be his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray(1890). The opportunity to construct aesthetic details precisely, and combine them with larger social themes, drew Wilde to write drama. He wrote Salome (1891) in French while in Paris but it was refused a licence for England due to an absolute prohibition on the portrayal of Biblical subjects on the English stage. Unperturbed, Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late-Victorian London.
At the height of his fame and success, while The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) was still being performed in London, Wilde had the Marquess of Queensberry prosecuted for criminal libel. The Marquess was the father of Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. The libel trial unearthed evidence that caused Wilde to drop his charges and led to his own arrest and trial for gross indecency with men.

Cuprins

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Oscar Wilde: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
The Importance of Being Earnest:
A Trivial Comedy for Serious People
Appendix A: Playbills for The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
  1. The First, Uncensored Playbill
  2. The Second, Censored Playbill
Appendix B: Reactions and Reviews
  1. From The Daily Graphic (15 February 1895)
  2. From William Archer, The World (20 February 1895)
  3. From The Observer (17 February 1895)
  4. From The Times (15 February 1895)
  5. From Bernard Shaw, Saturday Review (1895)
  6. From Max Beerbohm, Around Theatres (1902)
Appendix C: Ada Leverson’s “The Advisability of Not Being Brought Up in a Handbag” (1895)
  1. Ada Leverson, “The Advisability of Not Being Brought Up in a Handbag,” Punch; or,The London Charivari (2 March 1895)
  2. Telegram from Oscar Wilde to Ada Leverson (15 February 1895)
Appendix D: Three Works by Gilbert and Sullivan
  1. From W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, Patience; or, Bunthorne’s Bride (1881)
  2. From W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, The Gondoliers; or, The King of Barataria (1889)
  3. From W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, HMS Pinafore; or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor (1878)
Appendix E: From J.G.F. Nicholson, Love in Earnest(1892)
Appendix F: Conduct Manuals
  1. From Mrs. Humphrey, Manners for Men (1897)
  2. From Julia McNair Wright, Practical Life; or,Ways andMeans for Developing Character and Resources (1881)
Appendix G: On Dandyism and on Wilde as a Dandy
  1. From Charles Kendrick, Ye Soul Agonies in Ye Life of Oscar Wilde (1882)
  2. George Frederick Keller, “The Modern Messiah,” Wasp (31 March 1882)
  3. Linley Sambourne, “O.W. [Punch’s Fancy Portraits 37],” Punch; or,The London Charivari (25 June 1881)
  4. From Lloyd Lewis and Henry Justin Smith, “No Wave of His Chiseled Hand” (1936)
  5. “Aestheticism as Oscar Understands It” (1882)
  6. “Mr. Wild [sic] of Borneo” (1882)
  7. W.H. Beard, “The Aesthetic Monkey” (1882)
Appendix H: Other Works by Wilde
  1. From “A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated” (1894)
  2. From “Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young” (1894)
  3. From “Preface,” The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
  4. From “The Decay of Lying” (1889)
  5. From De Profundis (1897; published 1962)
  6. Letter to Philip Houghton (February 1894)
  7. Letter to George Alexander (July 1894)
  8. Letter to George Alexander (September 1894)
  9. Letter to George Alexander (October 1894)
  10. Letter to an Unidentified Correspondent (February 1895)
  11. Letter to Lord Alfred Douglas (February 1895)
  12. Letter to R.V. Shone (February 1895)
Appendix I: From the Original Four-Act Version
  1. Passages Regarding Algernon’s and Ernest’s Past-due Accounts
  2. Passages Illuminating the Characters and Roles of Miss Prism and Canon Chasuble
  3. Additional Passages
Bibliography

Recenzii

The Importance of Being Earnest marks a central moment in late-Victorian literature, not only for its wit but also for its role in the shift from a Victorian to a Modern consciousness. The play began its career as a biting satire directed at the very audience who received it so delightedly, but ended its initial run as a harbinger of Wilde’s personal downfall when his lover’s father, who would later bring about Wilde’s arrest and imprisonment, attempted to disrupt the production.
In addition to its focus on the textual history of the play, this Broadview Edition of Earnest provides a wide array of appendices. The edition locates Wilde’s work among the artistic and cultural contexts of the late nineteenth century and will provide scholars, students, and general readers with an important sourcebook for the play and the social, creative, and critical contexts of mid-1890s English life.

“Samuel Lyndon Gladden’s edition of The Importance of Being Earnest continues Broadview Press’s proven tradition of excellence. This book will serve the undergraduate, general reader, and scholar. Gladden’s introduction is provocative, and the ancillary materials are especially welcome. Gladden balances familiar with unexpected contemporary works — from Gilbert and Sullivan to Ada Leverson, playbills to reviews, poems to pictures, conduct manuals to dandy tracts — plus excerpts of Wilde’s writings, including an earlier version of the play. Bibliography and chronology complete the presentation as one-stop shopping for an earnest acquaintance with Wilde’s charmer as social text.” — Frederick S. Roden, University of Connecticut
“Broadview’s Importance of Being Earnest carries on the press’s excellent series of texts for general readers and students alike. Samuel Lyndon Gladden presents the three-act text, as well as an appendix with important scenes and lines from the original four-act version. The volume includes many useful annotations and glosses, appendices with contextual information, illustrations, and extracts from letters and documents that will enhance understanding and interpretation of the play. The introduction places the play in up-to-date critical and biographical contexts, illuminating issues without closing down other approaches to making sense of Wilde’s carefully composed dramatic nonsense.” — Philip E. Smith, University of Pittsburgh